House of Medici

1. In what century did the Medici family come to power?

2. What city did the Medici family rule?

3. What trade did the Medici family deal to become wealthy?

4. Which member of the family was the founder of the Medici dynasty?

5. How many popes came from the Medici family?

6. What country did both Catherine de' Medici and Marie de' Medici become queens of?

7. Which Medici ruler was know as "the Magnificent?"

8. Which of these diseases plagued many members of the Medici family?

9. What was the name of the conspiracy to overthrow the Medici by murdering both Lorenzo and his brother Giuliano in 1478?

10. Which artist did Lorenzo give a room in the Medici palace to stay in and money to continue studying art?

11. What was the name of Lorenzo's successor known as "the Unfortunate", under whose rule the Medici were temporarily overthrown?

12. When the Medici were temporarily overthrown, the city came under the rule of a which fanatical monk?

13. What was the name of Cosimo de' Medici's wife?

14. Which member of Medici family became pope Clement VII?

15. What was the name of Cosimo's grand-daughter who was married to Guglielmo de Pazzi from rival family?

16. Who painted famous "Mars and Venus", for whose painting the models were probably Giuliano de 'Medici and Simonetta Vespucci?

17. Cosimo's son Piero and his wife Lucrezia had four children. Which was not among them?

18. Which architect made Cosimo's dream to complete the Duomo of Florence?

19. Which member of the Medici family was assassinated by the Pazzi family in front of 10,000 people at the Easter church service?

20. Who was the head of the Pazzi family, who became the greatest enemies to the Medici family?