Renaissance in Politics “Something extraordinary happened…to change western culture forever…”
Page 209… “a new faith in human effort and achievement” “Renaissance thinking changed the way people saw themselves and the world around them” Medieval vs. Renaissance
Renaissance in Politics… Individuals Medici Family Machiavelli Savonarola Martin Luther City-States Venice Florence What are the linking ideas?
Individuals: Machiavelli + pg 223
Individuals: Savonarola Dominican order preacher Against the lavish excesses of the Church Rallied Michelangelo and others to his cause “Bonfires of the vanities” Preaching against Pope Alexander VI was his downfall.
City States… Italy was not a united/great empire. Italian renaissance was isolated in many ways. City states: independently controlled jurisdictions. Many were ‘democratic’ at some point. Stakeholders: Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Pope/Catholic Church, City-States
Individuals: The Medici Family Influential for more than three centuries Power Wealth Alliances Church positions Royal family marriages Waging war Wool/silk merchants Bankers
Individuals: The Medici Family
Individuals: The Medici Family
Individuals: The Medici Family Lorenzo Cosimo’s grandson Brother killed Ruled Florence 1469-1492 Renaissance man? Popularity via beauty, well-run, strategic exile. Catherine Queen of France 1547-1559 Ensured her three sons reigned Hardliner policies against Protestant Reformers
Ideas… Cultivating disagreement (pg 225)