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  1. Jun 27, 2024 · Cosimo de’ Medici was the son of Piccarda Bueri de’ Medici and Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici. His father, considered the first of the great Medici, had inherited the family business based on cloth and silk manufacturing and on banking operations and made the family powerfully prosperous.

  2. Jul 2, 2024 · The House of Medici (English: / ˈ m ɛ d ɪ tʃ i / MED-itch-ee, UK also / m ə ˈ d iː tʃ i / mə-DEE-chee, Italian: [ˈmɛːditʃi]) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici during the first half of the 15th century.

  3. Jun 20, 2024 · Medici family, Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and, later, Tuscany during most of the period from 1434 to 1737, except for two brief intervals. It provided the Roman Catholic Church with four popes (Leo X, Clement VII, Pius IV, and Leon XI) and married into the royal families of Europe.

  4. Jun 24, 2024 · One way in which he laid the groundwork for this was by marrying Piccarda Bueri, whose family was old and respectable and who brought a dowry. When he died, he was one of the richest men in Florence, as shown by his tax report of 1429.

  5. 3 days ago · Da un punto di vista familiare si sposa con Piccarda Bueri ( secondo alcuni storici proprio per l’ingente dote della donna); il matrimonio si rivelerà abbastanza felice e nel 1389 nacque Cosimo e nel 1395 Lorenzo. La famiglia si trasferisce in un’abitazione di Piazza del Duomo riccamente e finemente arredata.

  6. Jun 29, 2024 · The broken, downtrodden rosary is the symbol of Piccarda’s mortified vocation, which, along with the repressed love of Francesca da Rimini and the melancholic resignation of Pia de’Tolomei, is part of a female trilogy.

  7. Jun 29, 2024 · Bust of Piccarda Donati 1855, Giovanni Bastianini. The sculptor, who passed away before his time just like the gentle Piccarda, was originally from Fiesole and worked as an apprentice in the workshop of Pio Fedi.