How This Revolutionary Old Zoo Was Redesigned for the 21st Century - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus

How This Revolutionary Old Zoo Was Redesigned for the 21st Century - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus

At the height of his powers in 15th century Florence, Lorenzo de Medici managed to secure a magnificent giraffe for his menagerie. The animal was such a marvel that several works of art depicted its arrival. (Just how grueling and gruesome the transit must have been to the giraffe is lost to history.)

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