Medici, Cosimo De'
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...generosity toward artists and scholars. He founded the famous Medici Library and an academy for Greek studies (headed by Marsilio Ficino ), built extensively in Florence, and protected such artists as Brunnelleschi, Donatello, Ghiberti, and Luca...