Cosimo de' Medici reveals to young Sante Bentivoglio that he descended from the Bentivoglio lords of Bologna, in an effort to help the young man's family return to rule over the city in 1445. Ceiling painting by Italian Mannerist painters Giorgio Vasari and Marco Marchetti da Faenza (1556-1558) in the Room of Cosimo the Elder (Sala di Cosimo il Vecchio) in the Apartments of Pope Leo X (Quartiere di Leone X) in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Giovanni di Bicci, known as Bicci de' Medici, the father of Cosimo, is depicted in the tondo bellow.

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