the Gouty was able to take his fortune to Venice, forcing an exile of other bankers from Florence and causing the city to allow him to return.
This man notably rejected a request from Pius II from two galleys during an anti-Turkish crusade, blaming the limitations of his power as a free citizen. This man adopted Marsilio Fucino and commissioned him to translate several of Plato's works. He established a council of 100 men responsible for taxation called the cento, and though exiled by Strozzi and Albizzi in 1433, this father of Piero the Gouty was able to take his fortune to Venice, forcing an exile of other bankers from Florence and causing the city to allow him to return. After dying, he was given the title of Pater Patriae, which was carved on his tomb. For 10 points, name this Florentine banker and political figure, the grandfather of Lorenzo the Magnificent and founder of the Medici dynasty.
This man notably rejected a request from Pius II from two galleys during an anti-Turkish crusade, blaming the limitations of his power as a free citizen.
{Cosimo} de' Medici