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in my renaissance art class im learning about cosimo de medici!.
there is a question i cant find the answer to, it would be in the paragraph below,heres the question!.!.!.

Cosimo de Medic was able to

A) conquer all of Italy
B) reunite the blood branches of the family
C) understand essentials of linear perspective
D) chart the stars progression across the sky




Cosimo was placed in power immediately after the assassination of Duke Alessandro by the magnates of the city, who obviously thought that they would be able to condition this nineteen-year-old-boy, who had been brought up in the country, as they wished!. They were quite wrong!. Cosimo soon showed his true temperament and, with an able stratagem, managed to concentrate all the power in his own hands!. Led by the Strozzi family, his opponents took up arms against him but were beaten at the battle of Montemurlo on July 31st, 1537!.




Having ensured his throne, Cosimo re-established law and order within the State, promoting justice and protecting the weaker members of the community!. He encouraged the growth of trade and industry, started to reclaim the swampy land of the Maremma, founded the Order of the Knights of St!. Stephen to ward off the threat of the Barbary pirates, and organized a Tuscan militia so as not to have to call in mercenary troops!. In 1539 he married the beautiful and extremely rich daughter of the Viceroy of Naples, Eleonora of Toledo, who gave him eleven children and the royal palace!. Thanks to the support of the Empire, Cosimo later managed to conquer Siena and, after having come close to being offered the crown by the Corsi family in 1567, he was finally given the long desired title of Grand Duke by Pope Pius V and later by the Emperor Maximilian II, which gave him kingly rights; he also managed to arrange an Imperial marriage for his eldest son Francesco, uniting him with Joan of Austria, the Emperor's sister!. Thus they became one of the great European dynasties!.

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