A political, family drama set in Florence in the early 15th century ... order to protect the wealth and power of the family. Lorenzo de'Medici assumes control of the powerful italian banking ...

Lust, murder, intrigue, money, beauty and clever ruses sound like the ingredients of a classic adventure novel, but here Unger puts them together to construct a historical biography of Lorenzo de’ ...

Nicholas Scott Baker - Macquarie University, Sydney 'Alison Brown, premier historian of Renaissance Florence, crafted a compelling, revisionist biography of Lorenzo the Magnificent’s ill-fated son and ...

When Cosimo il Vecchio was a young man, he was given a slave girl. Despite his marriage he continued to live with her, away from his family. Their bastard son, Carlo, sought his fortune in Spain ...

Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de Medici was born in Florence on 13 April 1519. Her father was Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino and ruler of Florence and her mother was Madeleine de la Tour d ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: The Church of San Lorenzo is where the famous Medici Chapel is located ... and embellished as others built throughout Florence in later centuries. The church is said ...