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Nobility --- Medici, Lorenzino de', --- Medici, House of. --- Death. --- Florence (Italy) --- History --- De' Medici, Lorenzino, --- Lorenzaccio, --- Lorenzino de' Medici, --- Medici, Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de', --- Médicis, Lorenzino de (1514-1548) --- Urbino (Italie) --- Florence (Italie) --- 16e siècle

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Savonarola --- Paulus Giustiniani --- Savonarola, Girolamo, - 1452-1498 --- Giustiniani, Paolo, - 1476-1528 --- Florence (Italy)

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Stefano Dall'Aglio sheds new light on the notorious Florentine Lorenzino de' Medici (also known as Lorenzaccio) and on two of the most infamous assassinations in Italian Renaissance history. In 1537 Lorenzino changed the course of history by murdering Alessandro de' Medici, first duke of Florence, and paving the way for the accession of the new duke, Cosimo I. In 1548 Lorenzino was killed in Venice in revenge for the assassination. The events surrounding these murders, which Dall'Aglio reconstructs, involved the Medici, their loyalists, Florentine republican exiles, and some of the most powerful sovereigns of the time. The first publication in a century to examine the life of Lorenzino de' Medici, and the first work in English, this fascinating revisionist history is based on extensive research in the historical archives of Florence and Simancas. The tale is as gripping as a detective novel, as Dall'Aglio unravels a 500-year-old mystery, revealing who was behind the bloody death of the duke's assassin: the emperor Charles V.

Nobility --- Medici, Lorenzino de', --- Medici, House of. --- De' Medici, Lorenzino, --- Lorenzaccio, --- Lorenzino de' Medici, --- Medici, Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de', --- Death. --- Florence (Italy) --- History

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Masterpieces by Botticelli, Beato Angelico, Piero del Pollaiolo,the Della Robbia family,and Lorenzo di Credi-the cream of Renaissance artists-show how the modern banking system developed in parallel alongside the most important artistic flowering in the history of the Western world. The exhibition also explores the links between that unique interweave of high finance, economy and art, and the religious and political upheavals of the time. Money and Beauty. Bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities recounts the birth of our modern banking system and of the economic boom that it triggered, providing a reconstruction of European life and the continent's economy from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Visitors can delve into the daily life of the families that controlled the banking system and perceive the ongoing clash between spiritual and economic values that was such a feature of it. The saga of the art patrons is closely linked to that of the bankers who financed the ventures of princes and nobles alike, and indeed it was that very convergence that provided the humus in which some of the leading artists of all time were able to flourish. The exhibition takes the visitor on a journey to the roots of Florentine power in Europe, but it also explores the economic mechanisms which allowed the Florentines to dominate the world of trade and business 500 years before modern communication methods were invented, and in so doing, to finance the Renaissance. The exhibition analyses the systems that bankers used to build up their immense fortunes, it illustrates the way in which they handled international relations and it also sheds light on the birth of modern art patronage, which frequently began as a penitential gesture only to then turn into a tool for wielding power.

Art --- money [objects] --- banking --- Judaism --- Renaissance --- bankers [people] --- hoogmoed --- Medici, de [Family] --- Botticelli, Sandro --- anno 1500-1599 --- Florence