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The Medici’s were a remarkable political dynasty, banking family and later royal house in Florence, Italy. Over 400 years, two Medici’s became queens of France and three became pope. In the words of Professor Niall Ferguson, however, ‘prior to the 1390s the Medici’s were Florence’s answer to the Sopranos, and were a small time clan…

‘Poor Richard’s’ Almanack was a highly popular pamphlet published in the British North American colonies, with versions published each year from 1733 to 1758. Who wrote it?