Lorenzo Medichi the Elder ( Italian: Lorenzo di Giovanni de 'Medici ; 1395 , Florence - 1440 , Florence ) - Italian statesman.
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Biography
Descended from the Medici family. Born in Florence . He was the son of the creator of the Medici bank - Giovanni di Bicci Medici and younger brother Cosimo Medici . Got the nickname Popolano. Founder of the junior line Medici, from which the first great duke of Tuscan Cosimo I Medici came.
Lorenzo Medici participated in all the events of Cosimo Medici. Together with him he went into exile. Prior to that, he performed diplomatic missions. He headed the embassy to Pope Eugene IV and the Venetian Republic . From 1435 he headed the Medici Bank office in Rome . On September 23, 1440, he died at the Medici villa in Careggi, near Florence , which later housed the famous Platonov Academy.
Family
Wife - Ginevra Cavalcanti.
Children:
- Piero Francesco (1415-1476), husband of Laudomia Achchayoli;
- Francesco;
- Leonora.
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In the cinema
- Series of joint production Italy-United Kingdom " Medici: Lords of Florence " (2016 -...). In the role of Lorenzo Medici starred actor Stuart Martin .
Bibliography
- JR Hale . Firenze ei Medici. Storia di una città e di una famiglia. - Milano: Mursia, 1980.