Lorenzo de' Medici

thumb| Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, called the Magnificent (Italian: il Magnifico; 1 January 1449 – 8 April 1492) was an Italian statesman, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Quotes Per eseguire e fare come gli altri, giostrai in sulla piazza di Santa Croce con grande spesa, e grande sunto; nella quale trovo si spese circa fiorini 10 mila di sugello; e ben che d’armi e di colpi non fussi molto strenuo, mi fu giudicato il primo onore, cioè un elmetto fornito d’ariento, con un Marte per cimiero. That I might take part in everything, and bear me like the rest, I did tilt in the Piazza of Santa Croce—which tilting occasioned an outlay of ten thousand florins—and although I was very vigorous neither of my years nor of blows, yet was the first prize awarded unto me, namely, a helmet adorned with silver and having a figure of Mars for the crest. On the jousting tournament held in the Piazza Santa Croce on 7 February 1468, in Lorenzo's Ricordi (c. 1483–5), reported in Isidoro Del Lungo, Women of Florence, tr. Mary C. Steegmann (London: Chatto and Windus, 1907) p. 190 Le Tem[p]s Revient. The Time returns. Personal motto, in Del Lungo and Steegman (1907) p. 192 External links "Ricordi of Lorenzo the Magnificent". The Cantos Project Category:1449 births Category:1492 deaths Category:Politicians from Italy Category:People from Florence