IN SCOPE AND complexity, it resembles nothing so much as the mapping of the human genome, but the scholars with laptops sitting around a table in Florence, Italy, are trying to identify and index not the genes of the human body but the 2...

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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 die of malaria but were poisoned _ probably by Francesco's brother, Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici, who...

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 Vegas' Ritz-Carlton Resort are hoping its Medici Cafe will be a powerful business lunch attraction...

During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, considered the first economic Golden Age, both the Fugger family of Augsburg and the Medici family of Florence developed tremendous wealth and power. Both families conducted the practice of usury with regard to ecclesiastical affairs, drawing the ire of Martin Luther, and both easily influenced affairs of governance. Both also made positive contributions to European society, the Fuggers through their advances in accounting practices, and the Medicis