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| 1439 |
| | | The Seventeenth Ecumenical Council moves from Ferrara, because of the danger of plague, and sets up in Florence | |
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| c. 1443 |
| | | The Dominican convent of San Marco, in Florence, is provided with a serenely beautiful series of frescoes by Fra Angelico and his assistants | |
|  | Fresco in San Marco Monastery
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| 1462 |
| | | In keeping with his personal interest in Plato, Cosimo de' Medici founds a Platonic Academy in Florence | |
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| c. 1470 |
| | | Sandro Botticelli is established as one of the leading painters of Florence, working in particular for the Medici | |
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| 1472 |
| | | Leonardo da Vinci joins the painters' guild in Florence, probably after training with Verrocchio | |
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| c. 1475 |
| | | Tommaso Portinari, the Medici agent in Bruges, commissions an altarpiece from Hugo van der Goes for his family church in Florence | |
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| 1478 |
| | | A plot by the Pazzi family, with papal connivance, results in the murder of Guiliano de' Medici during high mass in Florence's cathedral | |
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| 1491 |
| | | Savonarola, the new prior of San Marco, is a stern critic of both the pope in Rome and the Medici in Florence | |
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| 1494 |
| | | Piero de' Medici and his brothers flee from Florence, after a mob ransacks the Medici palace | |
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| 1497 |
| | | Savonarola, in the carnival before Lent, urges the people of Florence to throw playing cards and lewd images on a great bonfire of vanities | |
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