This was a strong biography but not a fluid read. Given the dynamics of this tumultuous period, Unger's prose and flow sapped the dynamism from the story. Lorenzo emerged from this telling as far less dimensioned than he warrants. The man inside Il Magnifico would have been more realized with ...
in his Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects (vol. 1, p. 693): “Lorenzo the Magnificent, then, always favored men of genius, and particularly such of the nobles as showed an inclination for these our arts; where it is no marvel that from that school there should have issued some who hav...