Reading for Tuesday: Briggs, pp Reading for Tuesday: Briggs, pp. 146-151 and finish Dante’s Inferno for Thursday We will discuss Dante on Thursday and have a short writing assignment in class
Italy and Urban Culture Communes / City-states Investiture Contest (late 11th century) Consuls republics oligarchy Contado (countryside)
Commenda - investor(s) provide all the capital and receive 3/4 of the profits Societas maris - investor(s) provide 2/3 of the capital and receive 1/2 the profits Orvieto Orvieto
Consorteria (tower societies) Podesta San Gimignano San Gimignano
San Gimignano
Torre dei Conti (Innocent III and Gregory IX were Conti), Rome Rome, Torre dei Conti
Torre del Grillo, Rome (previously belonged to the Conti family, taken over by the Grillo) Rome, Torre del Grillo
Torre dei Margana, Rome Rome, Torre dei Margana
Rome, Trajan’s Forum with Torre delle Milizie in background Torre delle Milizie, Rome (built around 1200, ended up in the possession of the Caetani, Boniface VIII’s family) Trajan’s Forum in Foreground Rome, Trajan’s Forum with Torre delle Milizie in background
Rome, Torre delle Milizie Torre delle Milizie, Rome Rome, Torre delle Milizie
Signore (lord/prince) Signoria (principality) Matteo Visconti Popolo (non-nobles) -popolo minuto -popolo grasso Captain of the People Signore (lord/prince) Signoria (principality) Matteo Visconti -signore of Milan 1287-1322 -becomes hereditary in 1349 Medici -became hereditary dukes in 1532 -running the city since 1434 Florence, Palazzo Vecchio
Florence, Palazzo Vecchio, interior
Arti minori (minor guilds) Ciompi Rebellion (1378) Florence, Il Duomo
Cola di Rienzo (1347-1348 and 1354) Avignon Clement VI Innocent VI Papal legate Tiber Castel Sant’Angelo (built as Hadrian’s tomb in the 2nd c. AD, converted into a papal fortress and prison) Statue of Cola di Rienzo, Rome
Florence, medieval walls
Santa Croce, Florence Florence, Santa Croce
Interior of Santa Croce
Santa Maria Novella, Florence
Siena Siena
Siena, Palazzo Publico Siena, Palazzo Publico
Siena, Palazzo Publico interior
Siena, Allegory of Good Government Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1338/9) Siena, Good Government Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1338/9) Siena, Allegory of Good Government Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1338/9)
The Effects of Good Government Siena, The Effects of Good Government (town) The Effects of Good Government
Siena, Allegory of Bad Government Siena, Bad Government Ambrogio Lorenzetti Siena, Allegory of Bad Government
The Effects of Bad Government Siena, The Effects of Bad Government on the Countryside The Effects of Bad Government
Siena, Palazzo Publico; Simone Martini, Maestas (1317)
Rome, Castel Sant’Angelo