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40.2 Renaissance Florence & Medici
40.2 Renaissance Florence & Medici
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27 minutes
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Nov 4, 2017
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Rise of the Medici dynasty in Florence. Renaissance Italy sees a remarkable flourishing of art and literature, with such writers as Dante, Bocaccio and Petrarch, the architects Brunelleschi and Michelozzo, and the artists Giotto and Pisano. Florence creates a republican system of government, although imperfect, democratic for its time. Cosimo de Medici, a skilled diplomat, rises to power in Florence and helps organise the Peace of Lodi, which brings a period of relative peace and stability to the Italian peninsula For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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Nov 4, 2017
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