"Diplomacy, Language, and the 'Arts of Power'" by Melissa Meriam Bullard demonstrates how
Lorenzo the Magnificent's use of power and duplicity, which Bullard names the Medicean 'arts of power,' (51) provides the Medici with a successful political strategy in dealing with Milan, Naples, and the Pope.
I wonder what
Lorenzo the Magnificent would say about this whole stinking mess.
Then, recognizing his precocious talent, Lorenzo de' Medici (
Lorenzo the Magnificent), effectively the leader of the Florentine Republic, took Michelangelo into his household, where the boy was exposed to the company of leading humanists such as Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and Poliziano.
The Epistle Dedicatory that opens The Prince is addressed from "Niccolo Machiavelli to the Magnificent Lorenzo Medici," who happens to be not the famed
Lorenzo the Magnificent but a lesser descendant.
It was Pope Leo X, son of
Lorenzo the Magnificent, who made this land a possession pertaining to the Medici family, to sow the seed of development growing from Michelangelo Buonarroti to the magnificent marble of Versilia, arriving at the tourist and cultural excellence of today.
It represents the third book Dempsey has offered on the general subject of the relationship between vernacular culture and art in Renaissance Italy, completing the cycle begun by The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli's 'Primavera' and Humanist Culture at the Time of
Lorenzo the Magnificent (1992) and Inventing the Renaissance Putto (2001).
The initial essay tracks family-, then state-, sponsored carnivals from the time of
Lorenzo the Magnificent to that of Duke Francesco I.
And, thanks to his natural talent, years of early training and persistent hard work, he could name
Lorenzo the Magnificent, the Medici ruler of Florence, as a patron.
On my first night, my colleagues and I had the kind of banquet
Lorenzo the Magnificent would have relished in his Medici palace.
On my first night my colleagues and I had the kind of banquet
Lorenzo the Magnificent would have relished in his Medici palace.
1492
Lorenzo the Magnificent, Medici ruler of Florence, died aged 43 after a 23-year reign of cultural brilliance.
Lorenzo the Magnificent - Italian statesman and scholar who supported many artists and humanists including Michelangelo and Leonardo and Botticelli (1449-1492)