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...Confessio Medici," written anonymously...
...academies of the classic type, Dr. Sandys said, included primarily those of Florence, Venice, Naples, and Rome. The founding of the Academy of Florence by Cosimo dei Medici was one of the incidental and unexpected consequences of the Council of Florence, held in 1439. Foremost among the members of the academy was Politian, the general purport of whose poems may be gathered from a rendering of a single couplet: "O happy violets, which that hand hath prest...
...chief French master in works of this class, Vittore Pisano, and Dupre, are represented in this collection. Among the portraits by these and other medalists are those of Alfonzo V of Aragon, Lionello D'Este of Ferrara, Filippe Maria, Visconti of Milan, Leon Battista Alberti, Cosimo de Medici and Lorenzo de Medici. The medals are, for the most part, of considerable size, ranging from 40 or 50 to nearly 200 millimetres in diameter...
...short summary of the men who were the forerunners of the change. The Renaissance, he said, was a general resurrection of European intellect. At first, foreign teachers only undertook to instruct the people in the classics, but later the Italians themselves took up the work. The influence of the Medici was great. Not only manuscripts, but even statuary and coins were eagerly sought for. Towards the end of this period the art of printing was discovered and was destined to make a great revolution in the reproduction of manuscripts...
...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...