The Medici family is known as one of the most important family’s when speaking of reformation and change. This family was not born into nobility, but it was rather that the Medici family rose into the nobility. Giocanni was simpily what can be considered to be "middle class" “Giovanni's son, Cosimo (1389-1464), Cosimo il Vecchio (the old or first Cosimo), is considered the real founder of the political fortunes of the family.” (Van Helden)
Cosmio was the founder of the Platonic Academy. He would be the founder of the Italian renaissance. From founding the art society, to starting the idea of wanting to have art at home, the “During his rule and that of his sons and grandson, Florence became the cultural center of Europe and the cradle of the new Humanism.” His son Pier would continue to live out what he stood for, while managing to help the family fortune grow. After building an even stronger title, Cosmio’s grandchildren Giuliano and Lorenzo, would have a rule based on tyranny. The rule of Lorenzo gave him the title of Lorenzo the Great. Like the Medici, Florence grew from the bottom up. What had once been a small trading port was now the greatest city of the time. Due to the tyranny of Lorenzo, his son Pier was only able to have rule from 1472-1503 before he and any other Medici would be kicked out of Florence and not invited back until the Spanish took control of the French Savanarola in 1479. By far this invitation back to Florence was important to the rule of Lorenzo the son of Pier, but was not as important as the rule of Lorenzo the Great, or Cosmio. The reason being that Lorenzo the Great, and Cosmio were the founders and rein forcers of the art, education, of what is known as Florence. “Even the Medici did not always succeed in obtaining grants from the state;” but they did know what they could do to obtain the grants.
G F Young, Colonel. The Medici Volume One. Kessinger Publishing. 2005
Harrison Robet, and Alfred von Reumont. Lorenzo De' Medici, the Magnificent. 1876
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