Italy Video- notes

• Medici ruled in Florence throughout the Renaissance
• Florence was a republic, led by wealthy families
• Florence is a smaller city than Rome
• Vatican is the most powerful institution in Southern Europe
• Giovanni di'Medici starts bank, helps Pope get elected
• Cosimo Medici, gets dome of Florence built
• In Florence 1489 Medici born 
• Medici's were the godfathers of the Renaissance
• Men scoured Europe for treasure
• The men were really after knowledge
• Ancient learning was carried back to Florence from Europe
• Florence was the place to be
• Giovanni Medici ran the business
• Giovanni rose from poverty
• Giovanni knew the Church was up for grabs
• Made bets with pirates
• Pope John the 23rd
• Tried to build large dome, and failed
• City looked for fresh ideas from the Cathedral
• Filippo Brunelleschi roamed the streets and he was a genius
• Insulted people so they threw him out
• In 1419- orphanage became a showcase for his ideas
• Sparked architectural revolution across Europe
• Wrote calculations in code and didn't explain details
• Figured out how to build dome
• Cosimo de'Medici
• Brunelleschi faced problems like how he could prevent bricks from falling inward.
• Brun. had to prove that he was right because everyone thought he wasn't
• 1436, Brun. wrote a poem that it was a miracle that his dome was built without scaffolding
• Greatest architectural feat in the western world
• Cosimo invited Pope to the consecration
• 37 thousand tons, 40 million bricks
• Cosimo planned a international spectacle in the dome, The Council of Florence
• East and west were brought together
• Cosimo died in 1464, city of Florence declared him as the father of the father land
• Lorenzo rode before so his father would be safe
• But it wasn't Lorenzo who the assassins were after, they wanted to get rid of the father
• Lorenzo gets married to a mercantile family
• Sandro Botticelli placed himself inside the families circle of friends
• Lorenzo was thrusted into the spotlight after his father died
• Botticelli's painting was celebrating the arrival of Spring
• Venus is the first creature of the pagan universe
• Conspirators knew that they had to kill both.
• Giuliano de' Medici was stabbed 19 times
• Lorenzo was unaccounted for
• Plotters realize that the game is up
• Supporters of Medici were ready to fight the conspirators
• Lorenzo tried to travel alone to negotiate with his enemies in the south
• Gambled with his life for his city
• Lorenzo was worried for go off and settle things with his enemies
• Traveled for nearly a month. Sailed 300 miles, ship docked at Naples. 
• Pope is very unhappy that Lorenzo has bought gifts to settle things
• Lorenzo had saved Florence from destruction
• Hailed by his city as Lorenzo the Magnificent
• Lorenzo worked to protect the future
• Adopted the illegitimate son of his murdered brother
• Florence was under his personal control
• Leonardo da Vinci was a painter
• Leonardo's arrival was raising the stakes
• Botticelli took his paintings to new extremes because of da Vinci
• Birth of Venus was unlike any other painting of its time
• Freedom that Lorenzo brought to Florence was about to be tested
• July 29, 1487- Lorenzo's wife died suddenly from tuberculoses at the age of 34.
• Lorenzo found solace in art
• In 1488, he established the first art school in history.
• Michaelangelo was only 13, and made marble statue
• Brought into the Medici family
• Lorenzo had 7 children
• Medici was leading him in a dangerous direction
• Lorenzo was loosening the grip on the family name
• 1492- Lorenzo fell ill
• Turned to the Church
• Giovanni Medici was already a cardinal at age 16
• Cost Lorenzo a fortune
• Lorenzo died at the age of 43, fearing hell
• Botticelli embraced Christianity with a new found father 
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