By contemporary Florentines ( and since ), he was known as " Lorenzo the Magnificent " ( Lorenzo il Magnifico ).

Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent ( Lorenzo il Magnifico ) by contemporary Florentines, he was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists, and poets.

Giovanni di Lorenzo de ' Medici was born in Italy, the second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, head of the Florentine Republic, and Clarice Orsini.

Lorenzo de ' Medici ( 1449 – 1492 ), called " the Magnificent ", was more capable of leading and ruling a city ; however, he neglected the family banking business, leading to its ultimate ruin.

Pico was in trouble with the Church for some of his unorthodox philosophical ideas ( the famous " 900 theses ") and was living under the protection of Lorenzo the Magnificent, the Medici de facto ruler of Florence.

As shown by his letter of dedication, Machiavelli's work eventually came to be dedicated to Lorenzo di Piero de ' Medici, grandson of " Lorenzo the Magnificent ", and a member of the ruling Florentine Medici family, whose uncle Giovanni became pope Leo X in 1513.

Born in Florence, Piero di Lorenzo de ' Medici was the oldest son of Lorenzo de ' Medici ( Lorenzo the Magnificent ) and Clarice Orsini, and older brother of the future Pope Leo X.

He was the father of Cosimo de ' Medici ( Pater Patriae ), and great-grandfather of Lorenzo de Medici ( the Magnificent ).

Lorenzo the Magnificent was Piero's eldest son by his wife Lucrezia Tornabuoni.

* Piero di Cosimo de ' Medici ( 1416 – 1469 ) ( the Gouty, also Piero I de ' Medici ), father of Lorenzo the Magnificent

* Piero di Lorenzo de ' Medici ( 1471 – 1503 ) ( the Unfortunate, also Piero II de ' Medici ), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent

As co-ruler of Florence, with his brother Lorenzo the Magnificent, he complemented his brother's image as the " patron of the arts " with his own image as the handsome, sporting, " golden boy.

Giuliano di Lorenzo de ' Medici ( March 12, 1479 – March 17, 1516 ) was an Italian nobleman, one of three sons of Lorenzo the Magnificent.

In 1469 the reins of power passed to Cosimo's twenty-one-year-old grandson Lorenzo, who would become known as " Lorenzo the Magnificent.

The Studium became an imperial university in 1364, but was moved to Pisa in 1473 when Lorenzo the Magnificent gained control of Florence.

Alessandro Algardi ( 31 July 1598 – 10 June 1654 ) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome, where for the latter decades of his life, he was the major rival of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori ( 31 May 1535 – 22 September 1607 ) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.

The success of his opera Tarare was such that it was soon translated into Italian at Joseph II behest by Lorenzo Da Ponte as Axur, Re d ' Ormus ( Axur, King of Hormuz ) and staged at the royal wedding of Franz II in 1788.

In addition, when Lorenzo Da Ponte was in Prague preparing the production of Mozart's setting of his Don Giovanni, the poet was ordered back to Vienna for a royal wedding for which Salieri's Axur, re d ' Ormus would be performed.

Their lowest point came during the 1964 – 65 season when manager Juan Carlos Lorenzo announced that the club could not pay its players and was unlikely to be able to afford to travel to Vicenza to fulfil its next fixture.

His reputation had spread throughout Europe and he was on friendly terms and in communication with most of the major artists including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and — mainly through Lorenzo di Credi — Leonardo da Vinci.

Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli ( 25 September 1599 – 3 August 1667 ), was an architect from Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

Lorenzo de ' Medici was considered a political and cultural mastermind of Italy in the late 15th century.

Cosimo was succeeded by his son Piero, who was, soon after, succeeded by Cosimo's grandson, Lorenzo in 1469.

Lorenzo was a great patron of the arts, commissioning works by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli.

Lorenzo was an accomplished musician and brought composers and singers to Florence, including Alexander Agricola, Johannes Ghiselin, and Heinrich Isaac.

Following the death of Lorenzo de ' Medici in 1492, he was succeeded by his son Piero II.

One of the more famous examples is the painting Degas's Father Listening to Lorenzo Pagans Playing the Guitar by Edgar Degas, which was painted sometime between 1869 – 72 and is currently owned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini ( also spelled Gianlorenzo or Giovanni Lorenzo ) ( Naples, 7 December 1598 – Rome, 28 November 1680 ) was an Italian artist who worked principally in Rome.

The Medici giraffe was a giraffe presented to Lorenzo de ' Medici in 1486.

A television cartoon show, Garfield and Friends aired for seven seasons from 1988 to 1994 ; this adaption also starred Music as the voice of Garfield, one of the very last times Lorenzo Music would voice the character was in Garfield's Phone Messages from the Official Garfield site before his death.

Lorenzo de ' Medici is buried in the Medici Chapel in Florence.

He died in 1324, and was buried in San Lorenzo.

San Lorenzo di Venezia church in the sestiere of Castle | Castello of Venice, where Polo was buried.

The church was entitled by law to a portion of his estate ; he approved of this and ordered that a further sum be paid to the convent of San Lorenzo, the place where he wished to be buried.

According to Condivi, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de ' Medici, for whom Michelangelo had sculpted St. John the Baptist, asked that Michelangelo " fix it so that it looked as if it had been buried " so he could " send it to Rome ... pass off as an ancient work and ... sell it much better.

There was a conspiracy in 1478 to kill Lorenzo with his brother Giuliano during Easter services, the assassination attempt ending with the death of Giuliano and an injured Lorenzo ( later Giuliano and Lorenzo were buried together in the Medici Chapel ).

After a brief reign of twenty-three days, he died on 9 August and was buried in San Lorenzo fuori le Mura.

Donatello died in Florence in 1466 and was buried in the Basilica of San Lorenzo, next to Cosimo de ' Medici the Elder.

She was originally buried at San Lorenzo in Panisperna before her remains were returned to Sweden.

The LDS prophet Lorenzo Snow is buried in the Brigham City cemetery.

He died at in the hospital San Paolo, August 29, 1499, and was buried in San Lorenzo.

He was buried as Juan III ( John III of Spain ), with honours due a King, in the Royal Crypt of the monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial, near Madrid.

By tradition, Lawrence was sentenced at San Lorenzo in Miranda, imprisoned in San Lorenzo in Fonte, martyred at San Lorenzo in Panisperna, and buried in the Via Tiburtina in the Catacomb of Cyriaca by Hippolytus and Justinus, a presbyter.

Torricelli died in Florence a few days after having contracted typhoid fever, and was buried in San Lorenzo.

He died in Villa Campostano, Genoa, at age 82, and was buried at San Lorenzo metropolitan cathedral in Genoa.

Pasquini died at Rome, and was buried in the church of San Lorenzo in Lucina.

He was buried in the Old Sacristy of the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence and his wife was buried with him after her death four years later.

He died in 1470, due to gout and lung disease, and is buried in the Church of San Lorenzo, next to his brother Giovanni.

Giuliano was buried in his father's tomb in the Church of San Lorenzo but later, with his brother Lorenzo, was reinterred in the Medici Chapel of the same church, in an unmarked tomb surmounted by a statue of the Madonna and Child of Michelangelo.