The Medici: Masters of Florence (TRIH eps 572-575)
1469 · Resource
Who was Lorenzo the Magnificent, the most glamorous, glittering, and blood-soaked of all the Medici, who became his family’s formidable but compulsive “Godfather” from the age of only twenty one? What was the Pazzi Conspiracy, in which he was almost murdered in a bloody plot to eliminate Medici supremacy in Florence, in the middle of a church mass? Was the rise and sway of the Medici in Florence during this period the birth of mafia politics in Italy? What influence did Lorenzo have upon the...
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