Now it’s Bertoldo’s turn, after more than five centuries, to be celebrated as a master of the Italian Renaissance. Lorenzo de' Medici, the unofficial ruler of the Florentine Republic and the ...

Nearly 500 years ago, Duke Alessandro de Medici was lured with the promise of spending the night with a beautiful widow, but instead met the end of a knife from an assassin — hired by his cousin ...

Aleksandr Zykov via Flickr under CC BY-SA 2.0 In 1520, Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici—soon to be Pope Clement VII —commissioned Michelangelo to construct an ornate tomb for his family.