What did the Medici family of the fifteenth century accomplish?
A) They established a new house of bankers, which restored financial power to the city of Florence, allowing them to dominate its political and cultural life as well.
B) They ousted the Bardi family from power to secure control of all Italian banking.
C) They financed Masaccio's trinity, which began the Humanist movement in Florence.
D) They were the financiers to Kind Edward III of England in his campaign against the French in the Hundred Years' War.
E) They ousted the Peruzzi family from power to secure control of all Italian banking.
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