The Galileo Project > Galileo > Patrons >Medici Family The Medici Coat of Arms The Medici Family The Medici family of Florence can be traced back to the end of the 12th century. It was part of the patrician class, not the nobility, and through much of its history the family was seen as the friends of t

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The House of Medici ( ) was an Italian banking family, political dynasty and later royal house that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de Medici in the Republic of Florence during the first half of the century. The family originated in the Mugello region of the Tuscan countryside, gradually rising until they

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