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Cosimo de' Medici

Banker / Statesman · Florentine · 15th c.

Florentine banker and statesman (1389–1464). Using the Medici Bank as his base, he became the de facto ruler of Florence and patronised Brunelleschi, Donatello, and others to make the Renaissance flourish — "Pater Patriae" (Father of the Fatherland). The supreme model of how financial power and cultural authority can be built simultaneously, studied by political scientists and business strategists to this day.