Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, took care of the family's business interests. Lorenzo's mother, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, was a writer of sonnets and a friend to poets...

Lucrezia de' Medici (14 February 1545 – 21 April 1561) was a member of the House of Medici and by marriage Duchess consort of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio...

the Medici Chapel of the same church, in a tomb surmounted by a statue of the Madonna and Child of Michelangelo. After his death, at least two sonnets about...

Piero de Medici, commissioned a statue made of snow, and Michelangelo again entered the court of the Medici. In the same year, the Medici were expelled...

wealth and power was the ruling Medici family. Its scion Lorenzo de' Medici was one of the most famous of the Medici. The legacy of his influence is visible...

Eurydike. Hermes", a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (1907) Sonnets to Orpheus, an allusive sonnet sequence by poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1922) The Song of Orpheus...

family were the Medicis, first under Giovanni de' Medici, and later under his son Cosimo de' Medici. The Medici controlled the Medici bank—then Europe's...

Traditionally believed to have been instigated by Queen Catherine de' Medici, the mother of King Charles IX, the massacre started a few days after the...

adherent of the Medici party, but Luigi, smarting under a supposed injustice, joined an unsuccessful conspiracy against Giulio de' Medici, soon to be elected...

Cavalieri in the first line of the sonnet, where he states "Love is not always a harsh and deadly sin". In the sonnet G.41[clarification needed] Michelangelo...