“What I have dreamed in an hour is worth more than what you have done in four.”—Lorenzo de’ Medici.
The most well-known of the Medici family, which is saying something, Lorenzo de’ Medici was a Renaissance man in the very literal sense of the term—he was legitimately one of the people responsible for the golden age of the Renaissance. Living with great influence over the city of Florence during the 15th century, his life marks the peak of the Renaissance as well the end of the era, as his death coincided with Christopher Columbus’ “discovery” of the “New World.”
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