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Reading for Tuesday: Briggs, pp
Reading for Tuesday: Briggs, pp and finish Dante’s Inferno for Thursday We will discuss Dante on Thursday and have a short writing assignment in class
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Italy and Urban Culture
Communes / City-states Investiture Contest (late 11th century) Consuls republics oligarchy Contado (countryside)
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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
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Consorteria (tower societies) Podesta San Gimignano San Gimignano
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San Gimignano
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Torre dei Conti (Innocent III and Gregory IX were Conti), Rome
Rome, Torre dei Conti
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Torre del Grillo, Rome (previously belonged to the Conti family, taken over by the Grillo)
Rome, Torre del Grillo
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Torre dei Margana, Rome Rome, Torre dei Margana
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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
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Rome, Torre delle Milizie
Torre delle Milizie, Rome Rome, Torre delle Milizie
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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 -becomes hereditary in 1349 Medici -became hereditary dukes in 1532 -running the city since 1434 Florence, Palazzo Vecchio
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Florence, Palazzo Vecchio, interior
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Arti minori (minor guilds)
Ciompi Rebellion (1378) Florence, Il Duomo
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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
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Florence, medieval walls
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Santa Croce, Florence Florence, Santa Croce
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Interior of Santa Croce
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Santa Maria Novella, Florence
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Siena Siena
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Siena, Palazzo Publico Siena, Palazzo Publico
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Siena, Palazzo Publico interior
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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)
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The Effects of Good Government
Siena, The Effects of Good Government (town) The Effects of Good Government
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Siena, Allegory of Bad Government
Siena, Bad Government Ambrogio Lorenzetti Siena, Allegory of Bad Government
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The Effects of Bad Government
Siena, The Effects of Bad Government on the Countryside The Effects of Bad Government
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Siena, Palazzo Publico; Simone Martini, Maestas (1317)
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Rome, Castel Sant’Angelo
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