Treaty of Lodi
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The Treaty of Lodi, or Peace of Lodi, was a peace agreement which brought to an end the Wars in Lombardy between the Venetian Republic and the Duchy of Milan, signed in the city of Lodi on 9 April 145
Italy 1454 after the Peace of Lodi
Broletto Palace, the location where the treaty was signed.
Lorenzo de' Medici
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Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, was an Italian statesman, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Lorenz
Treaty of Lodi
…in Northern Italy. The treaty functioned to temporarily institutionalize a regional balance of power in which outright warfare gave way to diplomacy. Lorenzo the Magnificent - in the second part of the fifteenth century - became the guarantor of this political equilibrium, implementing his famous "equilibrium policy". Duchy…
A posthumous portrait dating from the late 1560s (formerly attributed to Bronzino)
Madonna of the Magnificat shows Lucrezia Tornabuoni as the Madonna surrounded by her children, with Lorenzo holding a pot of ink.
The Adoration of the Magi includes several generations of the Medici family and their retainers. Sixteen-year-old Lorenzo is to the left, with his horse, prior to his departure on a diplomatic mission to Milan.
Bust by Verrocchio, 15th-century terracotta bust, National Gallery of Art, Washington