Alessandro de' Medici: Renaissance race card? by Mario de Valdes y Cocom (issue no. 109/2009 / October 8, 2009) In a sarcophagus in the Chapel of San Lorenzo, the one surmounted by the brooding figure of Michelangelo's Il Pensieroso, and on which two of his even more famous nudes recline, is interred the first Duke of Florence, Alessandro de' Medici, called Il Moro (the Moor). The contents of the sarcophagus are slated to be included in perhaps the most curious investigations yet to be undertaken... read more
