Chapter 15 FLORENCE No.15

PALAZZO RICCARDI, AND THE RISE OF THE MEDICI

It is in the Ciompi rising of 1278, that social revolution in which all Florence seems for once to have been interested, that we catch really for the first time the name of Medici. In 1352, Salvestro de' Medici-non già Salvestro ma Salvator mundi, Franco Sacchetti calls him-had led the Florentines aga