First published at 22:40 UTC on October 1st, 2019.
A 2015 France TV History Documentary hosted by Stéphane Bern. Audio in French with English subtitles.
Stéphane Bern invites you to join him in Florence, at the heart of the Italian Renaissance, to discover one of its most famous figures. A king des…
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A 2015 France TV History Documentary hosted by Stéphane Bern. Audio in French with English subtitles.
Stéphane Bern invites you to join him in Florence, at the heart of the Italian Renaissance, to discover one of its most famous figures. A king despite having neither crown nor title: Lorenzo the Magnificent.
Lorenzo de' Medici was an Italian statesman, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Also known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (Lorenzo il Magnifico) by contemporary Florentines, he was a magnate, diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists and poets. As a patron, he is best known for his sponsorship of artists such as Botticelli and Michelangelo. He held the balance of power within the Italic League, an alliance of states that stabilized political conditions on the Italian peninsula for decades, and his life coincided with the mature phase of the Italian Renaissance and the Golden Age of Florence. The Peace of Lodi of 1454 that he helped maintain among the various Italian states collapsed with his death. He is buried in the Medici Chapel in Florence.
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