Making it with the Medici
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1h 2m
Dr. Rocky Ruggiero
Join Dr. Rocky for his first webinar of 2024 and meet the first family of the Renaissance! From modest origins to princely rulers, this family of bankers, political bosses, cardinals, popes, queens, and grand dukes wrote the book on how to succeed!
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