ROME, June 21. /TASS/. A tourist visiting an exhibition at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence tripped and fell, damaging a 17th-century painting, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reported.

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To earn the title Il Magnifico, Lorenzo de’ Medici had to be more than just rich and powerful ... But despite this inevitably tangled mix of motivations, from the noble to the more self-serving, ...

The double-sided portrait’s previous owner ... her fascinating and coveted her company. Florence’s de facto ruler Lorenzo de’ Medici, the writer and diplomat Alessandro Braccesi, and ...

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