The Medici family financed the construction of Saint Peter's Basilica and Florence Cathedral, and were patrons of Donatello, Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Machiavelli, Galileo, and Francesco Redi, among many others in the arts and sciences. They funded the invention of the piano, and arguably that of opera, They were also protagonists of the Counter-Reformation, from the beginning of the Reformation through the Council of Trent and the French Wars of Religion.
The Medici family financed the construction ,of Saint Peter's Basilica and Florence Cathedral, and, were patrons of Donatello, Brunelleschi, Botticelli Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Machiavelli, Galileo, and Francesco Redi among many others in the arts and sciences. They funded the invention of the piano, and arguably that of opera, They were also protagonists of the Counter-Reformation, from the beginning of the Reformation through the Council of Trent and the French Wars of Religion.