Western Civilization I / Unit 13 WC1 1209 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Florence: Republic, Medici, Signoria, Schools
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The idea
Florence was a republic with elected offices and terms, dominated by families; the Medici controlled the Signoria from fourteen thirty-four as papal bankers and patrons of churches, orphanages and the cathedral dome. The anchor's eight thousand children in school out of a hundred thousand people.
In practice
Laborers quoting Dante; Donatello and Michelangelo on Medici money.
Where people slip
Primacy faded about fifteen hundred with foreign invasion.
Your place on the trail
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- 1210The Renaissance Popes: Julius II, Alexander VI, the Papal States
- 1214Patronage as Politics: Cosimo's Council of Florence, 1439
- 1222Machiavelli's Prince and Castiglione's Courtier
- 1223Brunelleschi: The Dome and Linear Perspective
- 1234Milan, Venice, Florence Compared: Despot, Oligarchy, Republic
- 1727Join: The City Three Times
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