Medici controlled political power differently. Cosimo de' Medici used money to control Florence. The article, “History of the Medici,” mentions that Cosimo de' Medici was banished from Florence, but because of connections, he was welcome back. The people who originally kick him out was banished forever. Cosimo de' Medici used his money to control Florence politically, and whoever was against him received finical destruction. Lorenzo the Magnificent, grandson of Cosimo de' Medici, ruled Florence. He avoided assignation, and he stopped the attack from Naples, which Naples was following orders from the pope. His son, Giovanni, became pope (Histroyworld). The Medici family used money to control Florence. One of the Medici family became pope,
