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Florence

Steven DutchUniversity of Wisconsin – Green Bay

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Florence• Birthplace of the Renaissance• “Athens of the Middle Ages”• Florentine Italian became the literary standard• Florentine bankers financed the birth of

modern capitalism• Florence is a World Heritage Site

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Famous Florentines

• Dante Alighieri• Giovanni Boccaccio • Sandro Botticelli• Filippo Brunelleschi• Michelangelo• Donatello• Raphael

• Galileo Galilei• Lorenzo Ghiberti• Niccolò Machiavelli• Amerigo Vespucci• Leonardo da Vinci• Frescobaldi Family• Medici family.

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The Medici• Initially weavers and textile merchants• Dynasty founded about 1400• Medici Bank founded 1397– Double Entry Bookkeeping

• Cosimo di Medici dominates Florence, 1434• Lorenzo di Medici: Good Ruler, Bad Banker• Lorenzo’s Son was Incompetent and the

Medici were expelled 1494-1512

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The Medici Bounce Back• Dominated Italian politics in the 16th and 17th

Centuries• Major Patrons of the Arts and Science• Two Popes were Medici• Catherine de Medici became Queen Consort

of France• Dynasty declines after 1650; Main Line died

out in 1743

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Florence

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Santa Croce

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Machiavelli’s Tomb

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Dante’s Tomb

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Galileo’s Tomb

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Santa Maria Novella

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Synagogue of Florence

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Palazzo Vecchio

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Uffizi

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Perseus and Medusa (Cellini)

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Michelangelo's David (Copy)

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Ponte Vecchio

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On the Ponte Vecchio

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Fortified House

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Dante’s House

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The Duomo

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Entrance to the Duomo

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Dome of the Cathedral

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Dress for the Weather

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Pisa

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Cinque Terre

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