What made the Medici family so influential?
Simplifying Complexity
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The Medici - The Center of a Star
The Medici were sort of a unique central position. So the families that they were connected with weren't connected to each other. Everybody had to go through the Medici as a middleman or a Cosimo de Medici was sort of like a godfather. The loss of the Medicis out of that network compromised the network itself and damaged them as individual families.
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