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15th-century Florence

Medici influence, territorial expansion and renewed political conflict shaped 15th-century Florence as the city's artists, bankers and humanists gained wider reach.

15th-century Florence

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This century helps explain how a republic came under Medici influence. Cosimo de' Medici returned from exile in 1434 and his family gradually dominated public life. Florence took Pisa in 1406 after a long siege, then Lorenzo de' Medici faced the Pazzi Conspiracy in 1478. His patronage of artists and humanists belongs alongside these contested political changes.

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