Lorenzo the Inconsiderable.

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    • Subject Terms:
      FLORENCE (Italy); ITALY
    • Subject Terms:
      MEDICI, Lorenzo de', 1449-1492
    • Abstract:
      The article presents information on the quincentenary death of Lorenzo de Medici, ruler of Florence, Italy, in 1492. The quincentenary of Lorenzo de Medici's death in 1492 is a cause of much rejoicing across the way in Florence. Because Florence, as Lorenzo's biographer Vespasiano remarked, is "la cuta di Lorenzo," and Lorenzo was Magnificent. Non-Florentine historians have recently begun to suggest that there may be less to "il Magnifico" than once met the eye. A true magnifico would have built, not just given. Lorenzo seems to have been rather remiss in this respect.