After finishing Miles Unger’s dazzling new biography of Lorenzo de’ Medici, my head was filled ... literature and intellectual life that remains nearly unparalleled in history.

Lorenzo de’ Medici’s exact cause of death ... while other historians have asserted this didn’t happen in real life. These sources say he died peacefully after listening to the Gospel ...

Heir to a vast international banking empire and trading cartel with branches in Venice, London and Geneva, Lorenzo de’ Medici (1449 ... attempt that claimed the life of his beloved brother.

Her father was Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino and ruler of Florence ... Diane remained a dominant force in his life for the next 25 years, leaving Catherine sidelined. It was not until ten ...