Word: medicean
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...first Grand Duke of Tuscany after his uncle Allesandro de' Medici was murdered. He had an obsessive desire for magnificenza and was determined to outdo his ancestor--which, in terms of cultural spending, he did. Never had art and secular politics been brought closer together than in late Medicean Florence. Cosimo's patronage dominated the production of visual meaning and the consumption of art in the city, rather as the ownership of a local TV station might help magnify the image of a determined and self-centered mayor...
...first Grand Duke of Tuscany after his uncle Alessandro de' Medici was murdered. He had an obsessive desire for magnificenza and was determined to outdo his ancestor - which, in terms of cultural spending, he did. Never had art and secular politics been brought closer together than in late Medicean Florence. Cosimo's patronage dominated the production of visual meaning and the consumption of art in the city, rather as the ownership of a local TV station might help magnify the image of a determined and self-centered mayor...
...demoting Pluto would be even more grave for our spirit of discovery. Ever since Galileo trained his telescope on Jupiter and sighted, to his amazement, four Medicean stars never before seen with human eyes--ever since then we have been searching for new lights in the heavens. The discovery of Pluto inspired children's dreams of one day finding the newest Planet...