By 1434, Cosimo de Medici had consolidated power for himself and his family in Florence, all the while maintaining the appearance of a democratic government.
Cosimo clung to his position as a private citizen, but it was clear to all that he ruled the city of Florence from behind the scenes.
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Medici family, French Médicis, Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and, later, Tuscany during most of the period from 1434 to 1737, except for two brief intervals (from 1494 to 1512 and from 1527 to 1530).
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