Word: medici
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...time when the Italian Renaissance was at its height. As a youth he made but a poor scholar and at an early age was apprenticed to the artist Ghirlandajo, at whose workshop his masterful faculty at once asserted itself. Then for three years he lived at the Casa Medici where, under the patronage of Lorenzo the Magnificent, he had opportunity for personal contact with the most vigorous and influential minds of his age; and was enabled to feel the full power of the mighty intellectual movement of the Renaissance...
...committee has lately been formed in England to raise funds to erect a statue of Sir Thomas Browne, the author of "Religio Medici" in the city of Norwich in England, in which city Sir Thomas Browne made his home. A circular has been received by the Librarian of the University stating that contributions will be welcome from all admirers of the author's writings, both American and English. From *800 to *1200 are desired, and contribution will be received by the bank of Barclay and Company, Norwich, or may be placed in the hands of the Librarian of the University...