biography
pronunciation:
[kapohnee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1446–96)
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| biography:
| Italian politician, born in Florence, Tuscany, NC Italy. Ambassador to Naples and later to France, he was a member of the opposition to the Medici, and was gonfalonier in 1494. When, after the fall of the Medicis, Charles VIII of France occupied Florence, he took a firm stand against the king's financial demands and political interference. He died fighting against Pisa. |
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