Lorenzo the Magnificent

The poet who became prince and one of the greatest patrons of the arts of the early Renaissance

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Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (1449–1492) was the Godfather of the Renaissance.

He was the most powerful man in Florence (prince of the city in everything but title), noted humanist philosopher (he gathered great books to the Medici library, and great thinkers to his court), and an excellent poet in his own right.

He is perhaps chiefly remembered, however, as the greatest patron of the arts in history. The list of artists he either discovered, supported, or encouraged in their careers reads like a who's-who of Old Masters: Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Ghirlandaio, Verrocchio, and others.

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