If you look closely at the tiny screen-printed text on the face of the Dophix Medici More Fuzz stompbox, you’ll see an inscription in Italian. It’s a quote by Lorenzo de' Medici that roughly translates to, “How beautiful is youth, that is always slipping away! Whoever wants to be happy, let him be so: of tomorrow there's no knowing.”
As a Paisan, that quote takes on a whole new profound meaning when I consider how ironic that – centuries later – here I am reviewing a pedal named after the most prominent ruler of the Medici family who my ancestors (look at my surname) tried to assassinate (look up the Pazzi Conspiracy) during the Renaissance.
