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#54 Poggio Bracciolini Part 2
Poggio had to use all of his talents to talk his way into monastery libraries. In some he had to be super serious. In others, he would tell…
#53 Poggio Bracciolini
In the year 1417, 17 years before Cosimo De Medici took control of Florence, a man called Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini went hunting in the middle of Germany.…
#52 The Rise Of The Medici (part 14)
The return of Cosimo de Medici! On 5 October, 1434, Cosimo arrived at his villa outside Florence and stopped for some food. The Signoria sent him a message…
#51 The Rise Of The Medici (part 13)
By April 1434, six months after Cosimo de Medici's banishment, the people were turning against Rinaldo degli Albizzi. Even the banking families weren’t supporting him, not sure he…