Galileo and the Medici

The fourteenth fouquet's elaborate party offended the king's vanity. Louis would not admit this to any one, of course. Instead, he found a convenient excuse to rid himself of a man who had inadvertently made him feel insecure. Galileo turned his discovery of jupiter's moons into a cosmic event honoring the medici's greatness. Shortly after cosmo the first had established the medici dynasty in 15 forty, he had made j Jupiter the mightiest of the gods. The medici symbol a symbol of a power that went beyond politics and banking, one linked to ancient rome and its divinities.