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Article: Church and Politics in Renaissance Italy: The Life and Career of Cardinal Francesco Soderini (1453-1524).
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 1995
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The present volume follows Paula C. Clarke's The Soderini and the Medici: Power and Patronage in Fifteenth-Century Florence (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991) and forms a natural complement to it. While Clarke's study concentrated on the life and career of Tommaso Soderini (1403-85), Lorenzo de' Medici's right-hand man, Lowe's work focuses on Tommaso's son, Francesco (1453-1524).
The Soderini were a self-made family in Florence. Tommaso's grandfather and namesake (d. 1402) had spent most of his life in Avignon, running a successful business that eventually allowed him to retire in comfort to his native Florence. His illegitimate son, Lorenzo (d. 1405) was executed for ...