Word: medicis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tyro Demosthenes. But one day amidst a crowd of blasphemous soldiers he lost his temper and found his tongue. Called to preach at Florence (after one dismal failure there) he startled a goggling congregation into enthusiasm, soon became the city's foremost preacher. The mighty Lorenzo de' Medici tried to domesticate him, but Savonarola had more spiritual fish to fry. He began to cast in the troubled waters of politics. When the French invasion came and the Medici were ousted from Florence, Savonarola practically bossed the town. But when he ran afoul of the Pope (ill-famed Alexander...
...virtuous, she smelled of man, and she did not understand art." For graphic historical writing, Author Roeder's picture of the sack of Rome (1527) will stand with the best of them. And everywhere through the magnificent murk sound the great names, like bells: Borgia, Delia Rovere, Medici, Este. Gonzaga, Sforza...
...Florentine Merchants in the Age of the Medici" is the title of the latest book published by the University Press. It consists of letters and documents from the Selfridge collection of Medici manuscripts...
...documents were loaned to the School by H. G. Selfridge of London, who acquired them from the Italian government after they had been confiscated as state papers. They form the record of the Medici family from 1400 to 1600. (They are of significance in the history of the wool Industry and in international trade.) The manuscripts are in two divisions, the account books of "Medici and Company, Merchant Employers," letters of the members of the Medici to kings, artists and celebrities of the time...
...queen to King Charles I of England was curious about the fertility of her dwarfs, ordered her pet, Richard Gibson to marry another pet, Anne. The Gibsons together measured 7 ft. 2 in. They had nine children, of whom five lived. The five attained normal stature. Queen Catherine de Medici in a spirit of scientific research forced all her court dwarfs to mate. All were barren...