Word: giuliano
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...Giuliano was only a mediocre Medici. In any other family he might have been superb. But the Medicis were a flamboyant line, running to both seraphic and sulphurous extremes. Giuliano's father was Lorenzo the Magnificent, mighty patron of the arts and writer of bawdy ditties, a politically high-minded ruler whose actions were tyrannous. Giuliano's brother was Pope Leo X, a dilettante and politician who palely reflected his father's glories. Giuliano himself had the aquiline features and dark locks of his tribe. But he did not have the spouting energy. He met and married...
...French-supported Florentine republic, extant since 1494, fell before the Spanish-supported Medici. Giuliano acquired the title of Gonfaloniere of the Papal Forces. He was the ruler of the so-called republic. He played host at gala fetes and mingled with men of genius. But he was still a mediocre Medici, displaying no creative gifts, governmental or artistic. He died in 1516, when only...