Medicean

/ -ˈtʃiː-; ˌmɛdɪˈsiːən /

adjective

of or relating to the Medici, the Italian family of bankers, merchants, and rulers of Florence and Tuscany, prominent in Italian political and cultural history in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries

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I had lost faith in the Medicean popes, and especially in this weak and crafty cousin of Leo X.

But it is not in connection with any reverence for the scions of the Medicean House that our footsteps are drawn hither.

Such was likewise the attitude of several members of the Medicean circle, when the crash came.

These words rang ever in the ears of the Dominican friar who was now to eclipse the Medicean rulers of Florence.

Like many similar stories of the Medicean princes, this appears to be entirely fictitious.

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