I have seen Godfather the day before yesterday which is absolutely a classical film. There is an idea in my heart that one man will be invincible only if he is in a powerful group which I certainly mean the family. The first scene of the whole movie is Bonasera asking godfather to help his daughter who was almost raped by two American boys. Finally godfather promised him that he would do him a favor. At the wedding of her daughter he promised several demands and his only request is the respect. People who begged him have to kiss his hand which represents their respect and loyalty. There always are some conflicts needing the conciliation of Corleone Family.

And 500 hundred years ago in the hometown, although it is not Sicily Island, there was a powerful family playing the same, to some extent, function. That is Medici Family.  

As it is written in the article The Early Mdedici as Patrons of Art, we could see that ”The calendars of their correspondence show that they were always expected to ‘offer their influential support to advance the interests of a person’ and that they can rarely have refused to intervene on behalf of anybody who might be won over to their camp. Nobody felt too humble to ask for such intervention. When Benozzo Gozzoli’s apprentice got into trouble for purloining three old bedclothes from a monastery the painter turned to Lorenzo, who made it all come right. In return these people might be expected to vote for Medici interests in the innumerable committees of the guild and city government.”

It is so apparent that both Corleone and Medici family provided help for people who need them and then these people would pay back someday or not. If Corleone family existed in Renaissance period who can promise that there would not be an another influential patronage.