House of Medici

What do you know about famous rulers whose influence later spread to all of the Italian peninsula and the rest of Europe?

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

15th ✓

17th ✓

13th ✓

2. What city did the Medici family rule?

Venice ✓

Milan ✓

Florence ✓

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

Selling art ✓

Banking and wool ✓

Silk weaving ✓

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

Lorenzo ✓

Giovanni ✓

Cosimo ✓

5. How many popes came from the Medici family?

2 ✓

4 ✓

3 ✓

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

France ✓

England ✓

Russia ✓

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

Piero ✓

Cosimo ✓

Lorenzo ✓

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

Gout ✓

Haemophilia ✓

Yellow fever ✓

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

Pazzi conspiracy ✓

Medici conspiracy ✓

Albizzi conspiracy ✓

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

Leonardo da Vinci ✓

Michelangelo ✓

Filippo Brunelleschi ✓

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

Galeazzo ✓

Giulio ✓

Piero ✓

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

Francesco Salviati ✓

Girolamo Savonarola ✓

Girolamo Riario ✓

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

Piccarda Bueri ✓

Clarice Orsini ✓

Contessina de Bardi ✓

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

Filippo ✓

Alessandro ✓

Giulio ✓

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

Ginevra ✓

Maddalena ✓

Bianca ✓

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

Donatello ✓

Giotto ✓

Sandro Botticelli ✓

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

Bianca ✓

Giuliano ✓

Carlo ✓

Lucrezia ✓

Lorenzo ✓

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

Michelangelo ✓

Raphael ✓

Filippo Brunelleschi ✓

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

Giuliano ✓

Giovanni ✓

Cosimo ✓

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

Francesco ✓

Jacopo ✓

Renato ✓

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