Die Frauen der Sforza I: Bianca Maria Visconti – Die Stammmutter der Sforza
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"Cosimo had been educated at the celebrated school attached to the Camaldolese monastery of Sta. Maria degli Angeli in the Via degli Alfani. He knew Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic, besides several modern languages, and was passionately fond of both Learning and Art." (in: G. F. Young, The Medici, Vol. 1, London 1930, p. 64)
The year 1433: "In Cosimo de' Medici the party of the nobles (the Grandi), then headed by the powerful family of the Albizzi, saw a formidable opponent. They already detested this wealthy family [Medici] who were rising from the class of the Popolani and gaining such influence, and they saw in its new head [Cosimo] one who aroused their bitterest jealousy. They therefore determined that the Medici must be entirely rooted out of Florence. This, however, was not easy to accomplish, Cosimo's popularity being so great ... they considered, the death of Cosimo himself and the banishment of the rest of the family, including his brother Lorenzo and their first cousin Averardo. ... the Albizzi party accused Cosimo to the Government of scheming to exalt himself above the rank of an ordinary citizen ... Whereupon Cosimo was suddenly arrested, and consigned to a cell in the tower of the Palazzo della Signoria, while arrangements were made for his speedy judicial murder. But the temper of the populace when they heard what was going on became so formidable that that plan had after a day or two to be abandoned ... [instead] the whole of the Medici were exiled, Cosimo and his family to Padua, his brother Lorenzo to Venice, and his cousin Averardo to Naples ... The decree declared that the Medici were banished from the city and state of Florence 'being dangerous to the Republic by reason of their wealth and ambition' ... in September 1434 the decree of banishment against the Medici was annulled, and messages were sent inviting their return ... On the 6th October [1434] Cosimo re-entered Florence with a public triumph almost like that given to a conqueror, and in the midst of a rejoicing populace.“ (in: G. F. Young, The Medici, Vol. 1, London 1930, pp. 65-73)
"Before all else he [Cosimo de' Medici] was a deep scholar; one of those who loved learning for its own sake. He maintained a regular staff of agents always employed in searching in the East for rare and important manuscripts, which became the nucleus of the great library which he founded; he instituted the celebrated Platonic Academy for the study of the rediscovered Plato, of whose writings he was an enthusiastic admirer; no scholar applied to him in vain, and the ways in which he promoted the cause of Learning were numberless ... To Art he gave similar assistance; he was a liberal patron to the painters Fra Angelico and Lippi, to the sculptors Ghiberti and Donatello; and to the architects Brunelleschi and Michelozzo; he collected objects of art of every kind; and he made his collections open to all artists. No less lavish were his charities; he gave large sums for the rebuilding of many churches and monasteries, including the Badia of Fiesole, the monastery of San Marco, and the church of San Lorenzo, built a hospital at Jerusalem for sick and infirm pilgrims, and bore a large part in every charitable work undertaken in Florence." (in: G. F. Young, The Medici, Vol. 1, London 1930, pp. 78-79)
"A public decree was therefore past by the Signoria conferring on him the title of Pater Patriae ... No greater honour could have been done him than that such a title should be thus given him after his death; and by the title of Pater Patriae he was ever since been known in history." (in: G. F. Young, The Medici, Vol. 1, London 1930, pp. 131-132)
1 Lorenzo di Piero de’ Medici (= Lorenzo „il Magnifico“ de’ Medici), 2 Cosimo di Giovanni de’ Medici, 3 Carlo di Cosimo de’ Medici, 4 Giuliano di Piero de’ Medici, 5 Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici, 6 Gugliemo de’ Pazzi, 7 Giovanni di Cosimo de’ Medici, 8 Costanzo I. Sforza, 9 Galeazzo Maria Sforza, 10 Cosimo de’ Medici, 11 Alessandro Sforza, Herr von Pesaro, 12 Francesco Sforza, Herzog von Mailand, 13 Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici (er wurde als Auftraggeber des Werkes gleich zweimal dargestellt: einmal im Kreise seiner Familie und einmal als Gastgeber der Sforza) und 14 der Hauptleibwächter von Galeazzo Maria Sforza, im Jahr 1459
Neu: Bianca Maria Visconti
Neu: Caterina Sforza
Die Frauen der Sforza II: Caterina Sforza - Die Amazone der Sforza und die Muse von Botticelli
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Wer ist Mona Lisa? – Identifizierung einer Unbekannten mit Hilfe historischer Quellen
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Anna von Sachsen – Gattin von Wilhelm von Oranien
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