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political events

The Spanish crowns of Aragon and Castile join in alliance October 19 at Valladolid, where the infante Ferdinand (Fernande) of Aragon and León, 17, marries the infanta Isabella of Castile, 18.

commerce

Augsburg merchant Jakob Fugger dies after a career in which he has increased the family fortune (see 1408). He married the daughter of a mint master in 1441, only to see his father-in-law go bankrupt 3 years later, and has been careful to avoid becoming overextended, prospering to the point that he was asked to join the merchants' guild 6 years ago. He leaves seven sons, two of whom (Ulrich and Georg) will expand the firm's international trade, establishing an agency in the German merchants' building at Venice, while another brother (Markus), at Rome, will help them to handle the remittance of monies obtained from the sale of indulgences to the papal court. Their younger brother Jakob II, now 10, will study for the priesthood until 1478, when he will begin studies in modern bookkeeping, and his brothers will place him in charge of the family's agency at Innsbruck in 1485 (see 1494).

Florentine banker Piero de' Medici (Piero il Gottoso, the Gouty) dies December 3 after 5 gouty years in which he has acted as patron of the Platonic Academy and provided work for artists who have included Sandro Botticelli, Andrea del Verrocchio, and the late Donatello, maintaining political authority chiefly through the prestige of his late father, Cosimo. His wife, Lucrezia (née Tornabuoni), has helped to give their sons Lorenzo, 20, and Giuliano, 16, an outstanding education, and they succeed to the control of the now mighty Florentine banking house (see 1478).

art

Painter Fra Filippo Lippi dies at Spoleto October 9 at age 63, leaving an 11-year-old son, Filippino. The boy was conceived in an illicit relationship between Lippi and the nun Lucrezia Buti, who eloped with him (the two were released from their vows in order to marry); Filippino will be an important painter in his own right, and his drawings will be widely admired.

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