No sooner had the presence of the Turks at Otranto, in the extreme southeast of Italy, been rendered a thing of the past by the surrender of the

The final decade of Lorenzo's life constituted the midsummer bloom of the Tuscan renaissance, the meridian of the intellectual and artistic supremacy

At an early date he perceived that the new art would be of little value if there were not careful press readers. He was therefore among the first to

It was the Renaissance card which won the trick. With startling boldness, yet with consummate art, Lorenzo played the game of flattering

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