Lucrezia Borgia – The Life of a Pope's Daughter in der Renaissance
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The Medici were very great supporters of the painters, but even famous painters like Fra Filippo Lippi (c. 1406-1469) still had to fight for the correct payments they deserved, as the following historical source shows: „Dearest superior [Giovanni de' Medici] ... I did what you required of me about the panel painting, and set everything to rights. The Saint Michael is so thoroughly finished ... I have had fourteen florins from you, and I wrote you the expenses would be thirty ... For I have no more gold, nor money for the one who is applying it ...“ (in: Creighton E. Gilbert: Italian Art 1400-1500 - Sources and Documents, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois 1992, p. 7).
He became a really fat man and "having steadfastly refused to diet to lessen his great weight, died of a heart attack" in 1463. (in: Christopher Hibbert: The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici. London 1974, p. 96).
[Giovanni de' Medici was] "an able, shrewd and cheerful man, he was ill-favoured in appearance with the large Medici nose, a lumpy swelling between his eyebrows and a skin troubled by eczema ... Very fond of women, he was also a dedicated trencherman and extremely fat. He was a good judge of painting; he loved music ... But although so cheerful and carefree, Giovanni was a conscientious citizen and a capable businessman, carefully trained by his father who relied on him more and more after the death of the bank’s general manager, Giovanni d’Amerigo Benci ... Like his father he had bought a Circassian slave girl from the market in Venice, a delightful pretty girl aged about seventeen or eighteen ... Yet he was evidently fond of his wife, Ginevra degli Albizzi [wrong: her name was Maria Ginevra degli Alessandri], and he loved their only child, Cosimino. Cosimo [his father] was devoted to this little boy." (in: Christopher Hibbert: The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, London 1974, pp. 95-96)
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