Medici

Speech parts

1. Medici - Noun

2. Medici - Proper noun

Meaning

aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century

Synonyms

Hypernyms

Examples

The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me. Leonardo da Vinci

So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici. Bayard Taylor

I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It's a type of microfunding directed toward creators. Lisa Gansky

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible. Mario Batali

Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his request, they sent him artists and craftsmen by the dozen. Stephen Kinzer

1694 ) Deaths Virginia de' Medici died January 15 John Ogilvie (saint) died March 10 Cherubino Alberti died October 18 Gervase Helwys died November 20 Gerard Reynst died December 7 January March * January 15 Virginia de' Medici (b. Source: Internet

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