Definition of Lorenzo the Magnificent

1. Noun. Italian statesman and scholar who supported many artists and humanists including Michelangelo and Leonardo and Botticelli (1449-1492).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Lorenzo The Magnificent

Lorentz-Fitzgerald contractions
Lorentz factor
Lorentz force
Lorentz group
Lorentz invariant
Lorentz symmetry
Lorentz transformation
Lorenz
Lorenz' sign
Lorenz Hart
Lorenz Milton Hart
Lorenz Oken
Lorenz Okenfuss
Lorenzo de Medici
Lorenzo dressing
Lorenzo the Magnificent (current term)
Loretta
Loretta Young
Lorettine
Lorettines
Lorfan
Lori
Lorie
Lorient
Loriinae
Lorinda
Loris gracilis
Lorna
Lorraine
Lorraine cross

Literary usage of Lorenzo the Magnificent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Lorenzo de Medici, Called the Magnificent by William Roscoe, Thomas Roscoe (1847)
"On the expulsion of Piero, the son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, from Florence, ... The restoration of the descendants of Lorenzo the Magnificent to Florence, ..."

2. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"dences once occupied by Lorenzo the Magnificent, Machiavelli and Boccaccio — the Brownings lived for several seasons on these heights, above the Tuscan city ..."

3. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"... dences once occupied by Lorenzo the Magnificent, Machiavelli and Boccaccio — the Brownings lived for several seasons on these heights, above the Tuscan ..."

4. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities by Shearjashub Spooner (1865)
"Lanzi says that Lorenzo the Magnificent, desirous of encouraging the statuary art, then on the decline in his country, had collected in his gardens many ..."

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