Word: medicis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George B. Weston, '97 associate professor of Romance Languages will address an open meeting of the Circolo Italiano at Brooks House tonight at 8 o'clock on the Medici family of the Italian Renaissance...
...Toledo Museum pounced on the sort of thing it wants. From a private English collection which had last shown it at the Royal Academy Exhibition of Old Masters in 1904, the Museum acquired Adoration oj the Child, painted about 1495 by Piero di Cosimo for Lorenzo de' Medici. Notable for its luxuriant and microscopic detail and for the figure of the Child asleep. Piero's own idea, that masterpiece was one of the few the Museum could lay its hands on that it considered worthy of hanging with such possessions as Filippo Lippi's Madonna & Child, Fran...
...CARDINAL OF THE MEDICI-Susan Hicks Beach-Macmillan ($3). Long (411-page), impressively documented novel of the Medici, related as the reminiscences of the nameless mother of bastard Ippolito, a Cardinal at 19, whose precocious career was terminated at 25 by poison...
HENRY OF NAVARRE-Marcelle Vioux- Dutton ($3.50). Well-spiced biography of Henry IV, saluting the talents and good luck which enabled him to survive the machinations of his mother-in-law. Catherine de Medici, the rigors of his large-scale lovelife, overexposure to Catholic armies...
...steel headpiece, or morion, dates from 1575 and was worn in the state guard of Francesco de Medici, while the one of gold is a burgonet of 1550 from the Papal Guard. Both pieces represent the half century when the decoration of armor was most splendid without detracting from its defense...