by Lorenzo de' Medici · Dom Quixote · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722025553
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«Os Médicis: A nossa história» is the historical essay by Lorenzo de' Medici, published by Dom Quixote in paperback (340 pages, in Portuguese).
The author, a descendant of the Medici family, traces the dynasty's rise and its role in Florence during the Renaissance. The essay interweaves political chronicle with the artistic patronage that supported figures such as Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, showing how the Medicis marked the city's cultural splendor.
The edition is from April 2004, with ISBN 978-972-20-2555-3; the book is classified under History and Literature and Fiction.
Work suitable for readers interested in the history of the Italian Renaissance, power dynasties and artistic patronage in Florence.
Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, was an Italian statesman, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Lorenzo 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. As a patron, he is best known for his sponsorship of artists such as Botticelli and Michelangelo. On the foreign policy front, Lorenzo manifested a clear plan to stem the territorial ambitions of Pope Sixtus IV, in the name of the balance of the Italic League of 1454. For these reasons, Lorenzo was the subject of the Pazzi conspiracy (1478), in which his brother Giuliano was assassinated. The Peace of Lodi of 1454 that he supported among the various Italian states collapsed with his death. He is buried in the Medici Chapel in Florence.
