Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici
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Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, nicknamed the Popolano, was an Italian banker and politician, the brother of Giovanni il Popolano. He belonged to the junior branch of the House of Medici of Florence.
Possible portrait of Lorenzo, by Sandro Botticelli
Pallas Athene Taming a Centaur.
Allegory of Spring.
The Birth of Venus.
Amerigo Vespucci
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Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence, from whose name the term "America" is derived.
Posthumous portrait in the Giovio Series at the Uffizi in Florence, attributed to Cristofano dell'Altissimo, c. 1568
Montefioralle – sometimes claimed to be the birthplace of Amerigo Vespucci
Vespucci's birthplace in Florence, Italy
Portrait of a young member of the Vespucci family, identified as Amerigo by Giorgio Vasari