Sydney Thackray, a California native, has been knighted by Vatican Prince Lorenzo de' Medici and is one of the youngest Americans ever to be knighted under papal auspices.

In 1492, Lorenzo de’ Medici lay dying, his once-glorious reign crumbling under the weight of financial ruin and public ...

Lorenzo de Medici (The Magnificent), played by actor Daniel Sharman, was the head of the Medici family and ruler of Republic of Florence during the Italian Renaissance.

Lorenzo de’ Medici died in 1492. Suspiciously, that is also the year the Borgias rose to power in Rome. You can watch Showtime’s The Borgias , starring Jeremy Irons and Holliday Grainger, on ...

Why was Lorenzo de Medici a good leader? Florence was once ruled by the Medici family, an immigrant family from the countryside that amassed wealth and power. Compared to established families at the ...

The original Lorenzo de Medici was Cosimo’s brother, who founded the bank that is the source of the Medici fortune. He was assassinated in the first series in the year of 1440 in one of history ...

The series opens with Daniel Sharman as Lorenzo de’ Medici, who takes over leadership of his family’s bank after an assassination attempt on his father. The season ends with the infamous Pazzi ...

LONDON — A rare portrait by Renaissance master Raphael that shows a Florentine ruler from the famed Medici family will be offered at a public auction this summer, Christie's said Monday ...

To be sure, Carlson's androgynous take on double-dealing Lorenzo de Medici injects an extra dose of feline danger into Alfred de Musset's tapestry of political intrigue in 16th-century Florence.

Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici. Founded in 1973, Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici (LdM) is one of Italy's most established international higher education institutions, with its main campus in the historical ...