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Florence Steven Dutch University of Wisconsin – Green Bay Florence • • • • Birthplace of the Renaissance “Athens of the Middle Ages” Florentine Italian became the literary standard Florentine bankers financed the birth of modern capitalism • Florence is a World Heritage Site Famous Florentines • • • • • • • Dante Alighieri Giovanni Boccaccio Sandro Botticelli Filippo Brunelleschi Michelangelo Donatello Raphael • • • • • • • Galileo Galilei Lorenzo Ghiberti Niccolò Machiavelli Amerigo Vespucci Leonardo da Vinci Frescobaldi Family Medici family. The Medici • Initially weavers and textile merchants • Dynasty founded about 1400 • Medici Bank founded 1397 – Double Entry Bookkeeping • Cosimo di Medici dominates Florence, 1434 • Lorenzo di Medici: Good Ruler, Bad Banker • Lorenzo’s Son was Incompetent and the Medici were expelled 1494-1512 The Medici Bounce Back • Dominated Italian politics in the 16th and 17th Centuries • Major Patrons of the Arts and Science • Two Popes were Medici • Catherine de Medici became Queen Consort of France • Dynasty declines after 1650; Main Line died out in 1743 Florence Santa Croce Machiavelli’s Tomb Dante’s Tomb Galileo’s Tomb Santa Maria Novella Synagogue of Florence Palazzo Vecchio Uffizi Perseus and Medusa (Cellini) Michelangelo's David (Copy) Ponte Vecchio On the Ponte Vecchio Fortified House Dante’s House The Duomo Entrance to the Duomo Dome of the Cathedral Dress for the Weather Pisa Cinque Terre
