* 1478 – The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de ' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.

* 1471 – Piero di Lorenzo de ' Medici, Italian ruler ( d. 1503 )

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.

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

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

But in 1482 Leonardo went off to Milan at the behest of Lorenzo de ' Medici in order to win favour with Ludovico il Moro, and the painting was abandoned.

Another often-reproduced drawing is a macabre sketch that was done by Leonardo in Florence in 1479 showing the body of Bernardo Baroncelli, hanged in connection with the murder of Giuliano, brother of Lorenzo de ' Medici, in the Pazzi Conspiracy.

They were often based on the extremely brief account in the Metamorphoses of Ovid ( who does not imply a rape ), though Lorenzo de ' Medici had both a Roman sarcophagus and an antique carved gem of the subject, both with reclining Ledas.

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

Vasari's opinion was that Mariotto was not so well grounded in drawing as Bartolomeo, and he tells that, to improve his hand he had taken to drawing the antiquities in the Medici garden, where he was encouraged by Madonna Alfonsina, the mother of Lorenzo de ' Medici.

When in 1489, Lorenzo de ' Medici, de facto ruler of Florence, asked Ghirlandaio for his two best pupils, Ghirlandaio sent Michelangelo and Francesco Granacci.

The latter was based on a theme suggested by Poliziano and was commissioned by Lorenzo de Medici.

Lorenzo de ' Medici's death on 8 April 1492 brought a reversal of Michelangelo's circumstances.

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.

Two wall-tombs intended for the brothers Giuliano and Lorenzo de ' Medici are found within the entry chambers of the tombs.

Lorenzo II de ' Medici | Lorenzo di Piero de ' Medici to whom the final version of the Prince was dedicated.

At Cosimo's suggestion, Galileo changed the name to Medicea Sidera (" the Medician stars "), honouring all four Medici brothers ( Cosimo, Francesco, Carlo, and Lorenzo ).

In 1513, Pope Julius II died and his successor Pope Leo X, of the Medici family, commissioned Michelangelo to reconstruct the façade of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence and to adorn it with sculptures.

Apparently not the least embarrassed by this turnabout, the Medici later came back to Michelangelo with another grand proposal, this time for a family funerary chapel in the Basilica of San Lorenzo.

The major Florentine architectural projects by Michelangelo are the unexecuted façade for the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, and the Medici Chapel ( Capella Medicea ) and Laurentian Library there, and the fortifications of Florence.

) Lorenzo the Magnificent was buried at the entrance wall of the Medici Chapel.

* May 1 – Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro Spanish Jesuit philologist ( d. 1809 )

* August 1 – Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist

Pope Leo X ( 11 December 1475 – 1 December 1521 ), born Giovanni di Lorenzo de ' Medici, was the Pope from 1513 to his death in 1521.

* December 1 – Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor and metal smith ( b. 1378 )

* January 1 – Lorenzo de ' Medici, Italian statesman ( d. 1492 )

Each coin is designed by a different designer, from the 1 cent to the 2 euro coin they are: Eugenio Driutti, Luciana De Simoni, Ettore Lorenzo Frapiccini, Claudia Momoni, Maria Angela Cassol, Roberto Mauri, Laura Cretara and Maria Carmela Colaneri.

* In 1625, sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini finished his piece entitled Apollo and Daphne, taken from the episode in Book 1 in which Apollo, pierced by a love-inducing arrow from Cupid, pursues the fleeing nymph Daphne.

Carta de Lorenzo Garcia a Porfirio Diaz, Hemosillo, 1 de Septiembre de 1885.

Lorenzo Ghiberti () ( 1378 – 1 December 1455 ), born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was an Italian artist of the early Renaissance best known as the creator of the bronze doors of the Baptistry of Florence Cathedral, named by Michelangelo the " Gates of Paradise ".

Inspired by Phoenician accounts dating 600BCE of rich new lands beyond the Western ocean in the books, Lorenzo de Medici sent a bookdealer named Cristobal Colon in 1484 to buy these 1, 000 volumes, but Colon never turned the books over to the Medici family.

* IGNATZ 6: Chimera # 1 by Lorenzo Mattotti

* George Lopez ( 1 episode, 2003 ) Linda Lorenzo

She occupied herself financing and overseeing the construction of the Basilica of San Lorenzo — started in 1604 by Ferdinando I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany — to the tune of 1, 000 crowns per week, and she donated much of her fortune to charity: £ 4, 000 per annum.

Lorenzo ( or Laurentius ) Valla ( 1407 – August 1, 1457 ) was an Italian humanist, rhetorician, and educator.

When the general Manuel Gómez Pedraza won the election to succeed Guadalupe Victoria as president, Guerrero, with the aid of general Antonio López de Santa Anna and politician Lorenzo de Zavala, staged a coup d ' état and took the presidency on 1 April 1829.

* Sabine, Lorenzo: Biographical sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, with an Historical Essay, Volume 1, Little, Brown & Co. ( Boston, 1864 ).

Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro was a Spanish Jesuit and famous philologist ; born at Horcajo, 1 May 1735 ; died at Rome, 24 August 1809.

After consulting to Texas International Airlines ( TIA ) for several months, Lorenzo acquired control of it in 1972 through Jet Capital, which acquired 26 % of TIA's equity interest and 59 % of the voting power for $ 1. 15 million.

The rainfall caused widespread flash flooding and increased river discharge ; a station along the Río Grande de Loíza in San Lorenzo reported a 1 in 100 year flow rate.

Lorenzo ’ s oil is 4 parts of glyceryl trioleate and 1 part glyceryl erucate ( the triacylglycerol forms of oleic acid and erucic acid ), prepared from olive oil and rapeseed oil.

Under his guidance, San San Lorenzo de Almagro was formally established on April 1, 1908 honoring Father Massa, the Battle of San Lorenzo, Saint Lawrence and, of course, the barrio.

Anthony Di Lorenzo, New York ornamentalist, held two contracts for interior decoration in the Detroit Masonic Temple-# 1 ( Corrado Parducci ) $ 13, 160. 00 and # 2 for $ 9, 680. 00.