The Medici family was very wealthy and ruled from 1434 to 1737. The Medici family is famous for patronage art, patronage is where wealthy family's or people sponsors artist. The Medici family supported many artist and architecture like Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, and Donatello. They also had a lot of important members like Giovanni de,Cosimo de,Lorenzo de,pope Leo ,and Catherine de.And lastly did you know that the Medici family is sometime called
the godfathers of the Renaissance.

Dante was born in May 1256. Dante fought a Campaldino where Florence defeated the Ghibellines and was at the capitulation of caprona. Dante had to be sent on an embassy to Rome because in alarm at threatened interference of Charles of Valois. Also in 1302 a sentence of banished went against Dante and others. But it didn't succeed Dante took refuge in Romagna and in Ravenna where he stayed till he died.

Johannes Gutenberg took some existing technologies and some of his own inventions to come up with the printing press in year 1450. The printing press is considered as one of the most important in modern times. The first thing that was printed with the printing press was a german poem. Did you know the original bible was sold for 30 florins.

Michelangelo was born in caprese,Italy on March 6,1475. Michelangelo made many sculptures like David , the face of god , the hand of god and Adam , and a part of the ceiling of the Sistene chapel. He also worked as a architect, he was a true "renaissance man". Michelangelo died February 18, 1564 in Rome,Italy. And lastly when Michelangelo was seventeen we was hit on the nose by a fellow artist pietro torrigano in a argument and broke his nose!