Chosen as Lorenzo de' Medici's bride in 1467, the marriage solidified the Medici family's political influence and resulted in nine children.
The Dante funeral mask, once thought real, is now believed a lost sculptural portrait. Donated to Florence in 1911, found in Ravenna in 1830.
Enrico Pazzi decorated even the base of the statue with four heraldic lions symbol of the Florentine Republic. The sculptor and his subject are united by a strange circumstance: Dante was born in Florence and died...
Even the genius Leonardo studied it and reproduced wooden models of the machines Brunelleschi employed to move the material he needed!