Medievalists.net » Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici (the Gouty) http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Flee the loathsome shadow: Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) and the Medici in Florence http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/09/flee-loathsome-shadow-marsilio-ficino-1433-99-medici-florence/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/09/flee-loathsome-shadow-marsilio-ficino-1433-99-medici-florence/#comments Sun, 09 Nov 2014 23:30:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54007 This article examines the changing political landscape of Medicean Florence, from Cosimo de’ Medici (1389-1464) to his grandson Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492), through the letters of the celebrated neo-Platonist philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99).

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