Talk:Cosimo de' Medici

message: The article says Cosimo never married, at the end the part about issue says "Cosimo married Contessina de' Bardi (the daughter of Giovanni, count of Vernio, and Emilia Pannocchieschi)." Which one is right?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.219.138.254 (talk) 00:41, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inner conflict 

message: Hello!
I wonder why it isn't even mentioned that this man founded the "Platonic Academy", where Leonardo of Pistoia brought some Greek handwritings which were translated by Marsilio Ficino there and which were believed to be written by Hermes Trismegistos.
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Myrmeleon formicarius 12:15, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: He was an powerful ruler of Florence,Italy,who valued education and culture is a more simple explaination for him...
There was no "Platonic Academy" as posited by Della Torre in his famous, but now-outdated 1902 monograph Vita di Lorenzo il Magnifico: uomo, poeta, politico. The Platonic Academy has been the subject of much discussion over the past twenty years. It seems unlikely that Ficino ever taught in a school-like environment, but rather used the term “Academia” to describe his teaching methods. Neverthless, the Platonic Academy has become the emblematic for discussion groups among humanists concerned with philosophy and classical learning. See James Hankins, "Cosimo de’ Medici and the ‘Platonic Academy’, The Myth of the Platonic Academy of
Florence, Lorenzo de’ Medici as a Patron of Philosophy, and The Invention of the Platonic Academy of Florence," in Humanism and Platonism in the Italian Renaissance, 2 vol., (Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2003-4) 2:
187-217, 219-72, 273-316, 351-95; Robert Black, “The philosopher and Renaissance culture,” in Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, ed. James Hankins (Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2007), 21-23; Christopher S. Celenza, “The revival of Platonic philosophy,” in Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, ed. James Hankins (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007), 83. Hfeatherina (talk) 21:29, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Connection with Hermeticism 

message: The "article" page says that Cosimo de' Medici was born September 7th 1389, but I think that is dubious. According to http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9740780 he was born April 10th 1389. According to a Danish biography, he was born March 31th 1389. So what is true?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.157.235.213 (talk) 09:27, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  The April 10 "On This Day" list of births also links here, with seems a bit contradicting considering his birth date on this page is September 27th! Considering that sources seem to change in regards to September, im going to change this to the 10th April until it gets confirmed either way and removed from the Birth list on the April 10 page. Silica-gel (talk) 13:56, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

text: It's entirely possible to paint a posthumous portrait. Bronzino also painted Dante when this person was well and truly dead. Favonian (talk) 20:21, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

text: @NorthWildwood In the first paragraph of "Early life and family business", it's stated that Cosimo was born on 27 September, was named after Saint Cosmas whose feast day was celebrated on 27 September, and that he would later celebrate his own birthday on that day rather than on the actual date of his birth. The correction of his birthdate has now made a nonsense of the penultimate sentence of that paragraph. Would you like first dibs at rewording it? R L Lacchin (Gloucester, UK) (talk) 17:33, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong birth date? 

message: The brevity of this article is disgraceful. I intend on turning this into a top-notch, "very good" article. I own a wealth of books on the period, and shall be translating the "exzellent" German article. Some day soon I hope Cosimo will have a wikipedia page befitting such an important figure.
Philologick (talk) 14:40, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Good! I look forward to the results! AWhiteC (talk) 22:33, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disgraceful brevity 

message: I recently restored a claim that "Cosimo's patronage enabled the eccentric and bankrupt architect Brunelleschi to complete the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore (the "Duomo") which was perhaps his crowning achievement as sponsor." The claim had been deleted with the comment "This is a completely fictional fabrication coming from the shameful MEDICI: MASTERS OF FLORENCE tv series."
I feel that the claim is true and ought to remain in place. I offer as evidence chapter 9 of P. Strathern's "The Medici: Masters of the Renaissance" – for example p. 106. 
Please debate this matter here rather than starting a revert war. AWhiteC (talk) 01:05, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Funding of Brunelleschi's Dome 

message: some of the parts contradicts with the rest of the article, this might be due to the lack of encyclopedia tone 2404:7AC0:46C3:1DAE:C7A0:6118:C969:131A (talk) 16:53, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  contradictories