. The builders of Florence . d durable. Henceforth he treads thestage of Florentine affairs a convinced and confessed pallesco;a prominent member of the party that prepared for the downfall oftheir countrys liberties. Gonfaloniere of Justice in 1475, and, later,one of the Magnificents Council of Seventy, he died in 1489,leaving to his children a great fortune, the fruit of his successfuldealings at Lyons and Constantinople, where he had establishedbranches of his business. Lasting memorials of him are the Palacein Via Vigna Nuova ; the model of the Holy Sepulchre in San 226 THE BUILDERS OF FLO
. The builders of Florence . d durable. Henceforth he treads thestage of Florentine affairs a convinced and confessed pallesco;a prominent member of the party that prepared for the downfall oftheir countrys liberties. Gonfaloniere of Justice in 1475, and, later,one of the Magnificents Council of Seventy, he died in 1489,leaving to his children a great fortune, the fruit of his successfuldealings at Lyons and Constantinople, where he had establishedbranches of his business. Lasting memorials of him are the Palacein Via Vigna Nuova ; the model of the Holy Sepulchre in San 226 THE BUILDERS OF FLORENCE Pancrazio, and, as we know, the facade of Santa Maria Novella :all of which Alberti built to his orders. The infant Rucellai for whom Cosimo dei Medici took the vowsof baptism was Bernardo, born on the nth of August, 1448. Fromthe very font his career was thus, as it were, determined ; and whenhe married Nannina, daughter of Piero il Gottoso, Cosimos son,this allegiance became unquestionable. The influence of the i$ *H. ttf:.
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