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Giovanni Rucellai
Italian merchant and banker
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history of Florence
- In Florence: The early period
…chiefly Cosimo de’ Medici and Giovanni Rucellai in the 15th century, were able to shape civic politics and culture through a system of oligarchy and patronage. They underwrote the accomplishments that are now singled out with the term “Renaissance,” and their palaces came to dominate the city as fully as…
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