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- noun Italian statesman and scholar who supported many artists and humanists including Michelangelo and Leonardo and Botticelli (1449-1492)
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Educated in philosophy and the alchemical arts by her father, Cato/Caterina befriends the legendary humanist Lorenzo de' Medici and becomes a member of his Platonic Academy, a secret philosophical society established to further knowledge of the ancient arts.
Review of SIGNORA DA VINCI Julianne Douglas 2009
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Educated in philosophy and the alchemical arts by her father, Cato/Caterina befriends the legendary humanist Lorenzo de' Medici and becomes a member of his Platonic Academy, a secret philosophical society established to further knowledge of the ancient arts.
Archive 2009-05-01 Julianne Douglas 2009
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Your salon reminda me of the court of my patron Lorenzo de' Medici.
"You're spending a large part of your life whoring after the affections of 12 people!" — says Mickey Kaus to Robert Wright... Ann Althouse 2008
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Epictetus 'Enchiridion, which he translated into Latin and dedicated to his great patron Lorenzo de' Medici, in whose collection he had found the book.
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius 1839
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Pope Sixtus IV had just presided over the completion of the Sistine Chapel, and Lorenzo de' Medici sent Florentine painters to help decorate its walls, among them Sandro Botticelli.
NYT > Home Page By DOMINIQUE BROWNING 2011
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Filippo Strozzi had married Clarice de 'Medici, half-sister on the father's side of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, father of
Catherine De Medici Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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After him, Lorenzo de' Medici, banker, merchant, poet, who ruled Florence with a firm hand.
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