biography
pronunciation:
[kozeemoh day mayd
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| lived:
| (1389–1464)
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| biography:
| Financier, statesman, and philanthropist, born in Florence, NC Italy. Known posthumously as ‘father of his country’, he began the glorious epoch of the Medici family. As ruler of Florence he procured for Florence (nominally still republican) security abroad and peace from civil dissensions. He employed his wealth in encouraging art and literature, building the Medici library, the first public library in Europe, as well as many other magnificent buildings, and made the city the centre of the new learning. |
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