Original: Less than a hundred years later , this movement , under the patronage of Lorenzo de ' Medici , was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a '' golden age '' , a thought , suitably enough , he expressed at the head of his Vita of Botticelli .
Simplified: Less than a hundred years later , Giorgio Vasari saw this movement as a '' golden age '' . Giogio Vasari expressed this thought at the head of his Vita of Botticelli .