Who was Lorenzo the Magnificent, the most glamorous, glittering, and blood-soaked of all the Medici, who became his family’s formidable but compulsive “Godfather” from the age of only twenty one? What…
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- Part 1
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- 2025-06-08
- Year span
- 1434 – 1464
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