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Hutchinson`s History of the Nations 1915 -
Giovanni di Bicci de` Medici was an Italian banker and founder of the Medici Bank. It was Giovanni`s founding of the family bank that truly initiated the family`s rise to power in Florence. Giovanni di Bicci de Medici was the first member of the Medici dynasty to accumulate a great fortune, bringing his family from obscurity to fame. Born in Florence in 1360, he founded an important bank with branches all over Europe, lending money to kings and popes. |
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