Cosme de Médicis
Cosme de Médicis or in Italian Cosimo de' Medici , (born the September 27th 1389 with Florence and dead the 1464 with Florence), banker and Italian statesman, was the founder of the political dynasty of the Médicis, leader manpower of Florence during a good part of the Italian Renaissance. It is also known under the name of Cosme Old the (Cosimo it Vecchio) or “Cosimo Pater Patriae ”.
He is the son of Giovanni Averardo De' Medici and Piccarda de Bueri.
After the death of his/her father in 1429, it was opposed to the oligarchical mode then in place with Florence, in which the rival family of the Albizzi prevailed. The influence of Cosme de Médicis, endowed with a remarkable political direction, still grows owing to the fact that the chief of oligarchy, Rinaldo Albizzi, made it stop, in 1433, by showing it of misappropriation. He was imprisoned in the Palais of the Seigniory and then exiled for ten years. Cosme settled with Venice, while keeping a close contact with its partisans with Florence.
But Albizzi dealt with strong part; neither its prestige, nor its money intimidated its adversaries. One year later hardly, Cosme is of return to Florence triumphing and acclaimed by the people. In its turn, he banishes his rival. Like his father formerly, it is named Gonfalonnier Florence in 1434, and can implement its political intention aiming at making to its family the referee of the State Florentin. It inspired the foreign policy and exerted a great influence on that of all the Italy. It used for this purpose and in several directions its exceptional fortune, resting on the bank which his/her father had bequeathed to him, who had subsidiary companies in various Italian States and even abroad.
The patronage of Médicis started with him. It took a very sharp interest with art and science, with the service of which it put its fortune with the liberality of a large lord; any Florence followed its example. Collector, it was made advise by Donatello, which became his/her friend and which it encouraged in his artistic research.
He married towards 1414 Contessina de Bardi and had two children:
He had also an illegitimate son - Carlo (1428/1430 with C. 1492), which became prelate - with a slave Circassie.
Quotations
“It is ordered to us to forgive with our enemies, but it is not written nowhere that we must forgive with our friends”. (Cosme de Médicis) ----
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