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Lorenzo de' Medici Quotes

1449–1492 Italy

Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, called the Magnificent (Italian: il Magnifico; 1 January 1449 – 8 April 1492) was an Italian statesman, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.

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That I might take part in everything, and bear me like the rest, I did tilt in the Piazza of Santa Croce—which tilting occasioned an outlay of ten thousand florins—and although I was very vigorous neither of my years nor of blows, yet was the first prize awarded unto me, namely, a helmet adorned with silver and having a figure of Mars for the crest.

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