Medicean
/ˌmɛdɪˈtʃiːən
/ /ˌmɛdɪˈsiːən/ /mɛˈdiːtʃɪən /adjective
Relating to the Medici family.Ruling families like the Medici cleverly manipulated their own role in the Council through sumptuous art objects like Gozzoli's frescoes that claimed Medicean pre-eminence in bringing about the Decree of Union....
- The outcome of this shocking naivety was that the sons of Brutus - that is, the partisans of the Medici - survived to destroy him and restore the Medicean tyranny after the debacle of 1512.
- These last, with an eye to getting a position in Florence, he quickly named ‘the Medicean stars'.
