Love Those Medicis!
Ever since I went to Firenze last year, I have a mini-obsession with the Medici Family.<BR>Their story has all the ingredients: love, hate, revenge, murder, conspiracy, arranged marriages to mention a few. <BR>Do any of you Fodorites share my feelings? I would love to know if you can visit their villas, etc. in the countryside and in towns. Also the sites in Firenze itself.
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Didn't they own the Ricardo in Florence? ?And the Uffizi?
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Nan, Read the Agony and the Ecstasy.
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Take a cooking class with Lorenza de Medici..get up close and personal with a descendant!
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Nan I absolutely second grasshoppers advice. The Agony and the Ecstasy is a great story of Michaelangelo and his relationship with the Medicis!
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Nan, my kids have had the same fascination ever since Firenze, too. They loved it when we did the Loire Valley the summer after a spring in Florence that Catherine and Marie were popping up everywhere.<BR><BR>We pay homage to them at the Rubens room at the Louvre, too. The girls always head straight for the "Fat Lady" hall.<BR><BR>Amazing legacy for a very avaricious group, n'est-ce pas?
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Yes, I agree they have an amazing legacy, more than we casually realize. <BR>How is Lorenza related, I thought their line had died out?
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I've seen a few episodes of that TV show, starring Jane Seymour, Dr. Quinn, Medici Woman :~) <BR><BR>But seriously...one of my favorite places in Paris is the romantic Medici Fountain, in the Luxembourg Gardens, built for Marie de Medici, Catherine de Medici's cousin.
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Just goes to show how far you can go running a bureau de change, wasn't that the source of their fortune? I don't think those Medicis were always very nice from what I remember.
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No, they started out in banking, and went on to create a dynasty. I have a book on them but I forgot the name of it. Cosimo was the pere and Lorenzo was the Magnificient.
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LOL, Capo! I read the Medici Woman thread and said, "I'll bet Capo wrote that." Scrolled up, and I was right!<BR><BR>LOL
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Yes, my sister insect has a handle on it
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Lorenza can trace her ancestry back to Lorenzo and beyond.. and she has children so the line has not died out..only now they are Stucchi's unless she has a brother , which I don't know!
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I got hooked on the Medici's after reading "The Agony and the Ecstacy" and set the hook visiting the Capella Medici in Florence. If you're interested, there's a great book on the subject - "The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall" by Christopher Hibbert- that you might enjoy.<BR><BR>Betsy
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