After more than eight years of work, conservators presented the newly restored tombs in Florence this week. The tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, 1524–34, by Michelangelo Buonarroti, at the ...
The Albizzi were one of the oldest families in Florence and led the republican government for two generations. By 1427, they were the most powerful family in the city, and far richer than the Medici.