Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence

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Cosimo’s father, Giovanni di Bicci, founds the Medici bank in Florence with a branch in Rome

1400

Branch of the Medici bank opens in Naples

1402

Branch of the Medici bank opens in Venice A Medici wool factory opens in Florence

1406

Florence conquers Pisa

1408

A second Medici wool factory opens in Florence

1410

Baldassarre Cossa elected Pope Giovanni XXIII

1416

Birth of Piero de’ Medici (the Gouty)

1420

Death of Baldassarre Cossa; his tomb is commissioned by Cosimo de’ Medici

Giovanni di Bicci retires, leaving the bank to his son Cosimo

1424

Milanese army routs the Florentines at Zagonara

1426

Branch of the Medici bank opens in Geneva, later transferred to Lyon

1427

Introduction of the catasto, a form of direct taxation

1429

Death of Giovanni di Bicci

War with Milan over Lucca

1433

Branch of the Medici bank opens in Basle

Medici silk factory opens in Florence

September 7, Cosimo de’ Medici arrested and exiled

1434

September 29, Cosimo recalled to Florence