In the late fifteenth, and early sixteenth centuries the first economic Golden Age began. Two families, the Fugger's and Medici's were of immense wealth and power. Both helped to finance projects for...
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Italian scientists believe they have uncovered a 400-year-old murder. Historians have long suspected that Francesco de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his second wife Bianca Cappello did not di...
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Medici was a powerful Italian family with numerous business interests during the Renaissance, based in a land and time inhabited by
Leonardo da
Vinci
and
Michelangelo
.Operators of Lake Las Vega...
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A rare portrait by Renaissance master Raphael that shows a Florentine ruler from the famed Medici family will be offered at a public auction this summer, Christie's said Monday.Christie's expects t...
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Florence (dpa) - A 500-year-old mystery over a missing Leonardo Da
Vinci masterpiece will be solved by the end of 2007, Italy's Culture
Minister Francesco Rutelli said Monda...
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Florence (dpa) - A 500-year-old mystery over a missing Leonardo Da
Vinci masterpiece will be solved by the end of 2008, Italy's Culture
Minister Francesco Rutelli said Monda...
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Scientists have exhumed the Renaissance-era remains of two intellectuals who belonged to Florence's powerful Medici family court, in an effort to learn more about their lives and deaths.The 15th ce...
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Rome (dpa) - Some six centuries after the rise and fall of the
powerful Medici family, Italy is once again set to gain a leading
role in Europe's financial world.
...
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Cairo (dpa) - Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi's son has admitted
that the Bulgarian medics accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan
children with the HIV virus were tortured...
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Economic Success and Political Influence of the Fuggers and Medicis
Scientists may have found Medici murder
