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The Jews and the Medici - English
URL: http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/medici.html

The fate of Tuscan Jewry in the early modern period was inextricably linked to the favor and the fortune of the House of Medici. Though a Jewish presence was registered in Lucca as early as the ninth century and a network of Jewish banks had spread throughout the region by the mid-fifteenth, the organized Jewish communities of Florence, Siena, Pisa and Livorno were political creations of the Medici rulers. And like the Medici Grand Dukedom itself, these communities took shape in the course of the sixteenth century.

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Chapter 6 - COSIMO II AND GALILEO GALILEI. Your Way to Florence. Florence, Italy - English
URL: http://www.arca.net/db/medici/medici6.htm

During the reigns of Cosimo I, Francesco, and Ferdinando, the bank had continued to flourish, providing an inexhaustible source of funds that had been available to emperors and manarchs. Now instead expenditures increased and income suddenly stopped.

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The Medici Archive Project: Jewish History, Religion and Culture - English
URL: http://www.medici.org/jewish/jdoc4.htm

Cosimo II permits Simone Basileo, a Jewish actor from Mantua, to travel around Tuscany performing without an identifying badge (1611).

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Medici, Cosimo II de'. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/me/MedicC2.html

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1590–1621, grand duke of Tuscany (1609–21); son and successor of Ferdinand I de’ Medici. Although Cosimo played a role in the War of the Mantuan Succession, he generally avoided intervention in foreign affairs; in domestic policy he was less energetic than his father, particularly in economic matters, but he maintained a large fleet.

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The Medici Family - English
URL: http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/People/medici.html

The Medici family of Florence can be traced back to the end of the 12th century. It was part of the patrician class*, not the nobility, and through much of its history the family was seen as the friends of the common people. Through banking and commerce, the family acquired great wealth in the 13th century, and political influence came along with this wealth. At the end of that century, a member of the family served as gonfaliere, or standard bearer (high ceremonial office) of Florence.

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Медичи - Russian
URL: http://www.krugosvet.ru/articles/47/1004766/1004766a1.htm

Ранняя история семейства. Медичи – правители Флоренции.

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