In the year 1740, residents of Florence welcomed a memorably named character called Lady Pomfret. It was a time of economic and cultural depression in the capital of Tuscany—an autonomous state, with ...

In the 14th century, the Medici family used the power of its newly invented, double-entry accounting system to build a cross-border banking empire that banks still use today. Now more than 600 years ...

Prince Lorenzo de’ Medici – a descendant of the famed Renaissance-era Italian banking family, the House of Medici – has opened a bank in Puerto Rico. Medici Bank, “born out of frustration with the ...

The House of Medici or Famiglia de' Medici was a political dynasty, banking family and later royal house that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici in the Republic of Florence ...

Today’s royal families pale in comparison to the Italian House of Medici in terms of both influence and wealth. The Florentine family amassed a fortune in the textile industry, ultimately opening the ...

Sometimes, one family is important enough to alter the course of human history. The Medici family of Florence, Italy, was one of those families. The Medicis were a key merchant and banking family from ...

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Among the most venerable works of art owned by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum since 1858 is the “Virgin with the Laughing Child,” a terracotta sculpture, for too long, wrongly attributed to ...

Prince Lorenzo de’ Medici – a descendant of the famed Renaissance-era Italian banking family, the House of Medici – has opened a bank in Puerto Rico. Medici Bank, "born out of frustration with the ...