#Cosimo de' Medici

[narrateur]

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572) Cosimo I de' Medici (1519–1574), n.d. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York

[lesbicastagna]

went down a rabbit hole of this subject.

Filippo Lippi, painter and carmelitan friar, and Lucrezia Buti, a nun, meet and fall in love while she poses as model for an altarpiece. Classic.

[maryqos]

"I do not excuse your sins, Cosimo. It is not my place to do so. And I have sins of my own, but as long as we can breathe, there is a chance that we can atone for them."

MEDICI: MASTERS OF FLORENCE Episode 8 (2016)

[gulnarsultan]

Yandere Lorenzo De Medici and Yandere Cosimo De Medici with Mistress reader who pregnant

◇ Yandere Lorenzo De Medici and his pregnant mistress reader.

~ Soon after Lorenzo meets you, your fate is sealed.

~ This man definitely makes you fall in love with him with his intelligence.

~ He takes you as his mistress. He doesn't care what his wife and others say.

~ You will truly live like a Queen and be treated like one.

~ You will have the best food and care.

~The best doctors in childbirth will take care of you.

~ You will be very pampered financially. You will have the most expensive dresses and jewelry.

~ It will legitimize every child you give birth to. Children will also have the best life.

◇ Yandere Cosimo De Medici and his pregnant mistress reader.

~ When Cosimo saw you, he decided that you were meant to be together.

~ Thanks to his cunning, it is not difficult for him to make you his mistress.

~ He spoils you financially to the fullest.

~ If you have art or any other hobby, he will support you.

~ He is very careful about your health until birth.

~ You will live in a luxury castle with women enough to be in the same Palace or as a neighbor.

~ Every child you give birth to will be legitimized.

~ He won't listen to anything his legal wife or anyone else has to say about you.

[illustratus]

Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici (detail) by Bronzino

[marytudorqueenofengland]

Portrait painting of Mary I of England in Florence Italy . According Peter Stiffell, the original owner of this image (@PStiffell) it was Commissioned by Cosimo I de Medici.

[all-is-fair-in-love-and-war]

Francesco and Clarice were friends and you can't change my mind

Clarice helping with Francesco's marriage

Francesco being Piero's godfather

Francesco shutting down ANY violence towards Clarice

They were friends.

[all-that-is-gold-is-now-gone]

Lorezno season 2: We can find a peaceful solution

Lorenzo season 3: Fuck around and Find out

[yxxxxxx1]

To his wife Clarice at Florence Milan, 22 July 1469

I have arrived here safely and am well. I am sure this will please you more than any other news save that of my return, judging by my own feelings of longing for you and for home. Make much of Piero, Mona Contessina, and Mona Lucrezia. I shall hasten to finish here and return to you, for it seems to me a thousand years since I saw you. Pray to God for me, and if you want anything from here let me know, so long as I have not already left. -From Milan, July 22, 1469

Source: Lorenzo de' Medici, Selected Poems and Prose

[tragediambulante]

Portrait of Cosimo I de'Medici, Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci), about 1538

[oldmanpazzi]

Okay I’m sorry I gotta talk about the parallels between these two…

And these two…

Plus…

There are so many visual and narrative parallels between Cosimo and Rinaldo, and Lorenzo and Francesco. They’re both two sides of the same coin.

But the fundamental difference in their relationship arcs is that where Rinaldo blames Cosimo for his past deeds, Francesco believes that all events were out of their control, that it is fundamentally impossible for any reconciliation to occur, that a friendship between them is impossible.

Albizzi's grudge is fair and one he holds onto despite Cosimo's attempts to apologise and regain his friendship. Their relationship is very much defined by agency and conscious choices that are made at various points in their lives which lead to things unfolding the way they do. It is Albizzi's belief that Cosimo chose to betray him all those years ago. He even says that Cosimo was the one to sacrifice their friendship and that is ultimately why they remain in opposition — it is Rinaldo's choice to hold onto that grudge.

Even Cosimo sees it that way as he talks about how he made his choice many years ago at various points in the series. He knows that by choosing to obey his father (regardless of whether he could have actually done otherwise — see Giovanni’s death threat on his wedding day) meant he could not live the life he wanted. Their fallout is a key moment in understanding their dynamic throughout the series.

Francesco, however, has been constantly told throughout his life that the Medici are the enemy. When he tries to see beyond that, he is swiftly snatched back into these ingrained views. For him, fate keeps him and Lorenzo apart. They can't be together because Medici and Pazzi don't mix. It's all beyond their control.

They have no agency.

Lorenzo doesn’t even seem to see himself as playing any part in the breakdown of their relationship as he happily pins the entirety of the blame on Jacopo (who isn’t blameless by any stretch of the imagination). But Lorenzo still could have done more to show him that he wasn’t simply a pawn to him. He could’ve admitted that he originally invited Novella himself and thus removing anything to be used by Jacopo.

These two dynamics mirror one another so well, but their attitudes towards how that dynamic came to be couldn’t be more different. I love how this show explores these kinds of relationships in the show and how cleverly it crafts such interesting and complex dynamics.

[archiveofcanvas]

Justus Sustermans Portrait of Cosimo III de Medici as baby

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

And now we get (one of) the famous “Cosimo told me to tell you some home truths through prophecy” moments in Marsilio’s life

[thetudorslovers]

In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - and airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the phantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos. Yet her features were not of that regular mould which we have been falsely taught to worship in the classical labors of the heathen. - Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia

[royalty-nobility]

Cosimo de Medici in Armour

Artist: Bronzino (Italian, 1503–1572)

Genre: Portrait

Date: circa 1545

Medium: Oil on Poplar Panel

Collection: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

Cosimo de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

Cosimo I de' Medici (12 June 1519 – 21 April 1574) was the second and last duke of Florence from 1537 until 1569, when he became the first grand duke of Tuscany, a title he held until his death.