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Why Italy? 1.Capitol of Roman empire connection 2.Had become very wealthy from trade. 3.City States competed for fame and fortune. Urban society created $ boom Ideas flowed with more people Laocoon defeated by snakes sent by greek gods

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Page 1: The Renaissance. The Italian Renaissance Renaissance: means Rebirth People wanted to make society better, interest same as Greek and Romans. Believed

The Renaissance

Page 2: The Renaissance. The Italian Renaissance Renaissance: means Rebirth People wanted to make society better, interest same as Greek and Romans. Believed

The Italian Renaissance• Renaissance: means “Rebirth”

• People wanted to make society better, interest same as Greek and Romans.

• Believed people made a difference• People became secular: meaning more

interested in world than religion and getting to heaven

• Four important patterns of thought:  humanism, individualism, secularism and skepticism.

Trevi Fountain in Rome,Italy

Page 3: The Renaissance. The Italian Renaissance Renaissance: means Rebirth People wanted to make society better, interest same as Greek and Romans. Believed

Why Italy?1. Capitol of Roman empire connection 2. Had become very wealthy from trade.3. City States competed for fame and

fortune.• Urban society created $ boom• Ideas flowed with more people

Laocoon defeated by snakes sent by greek gods

Page 4: The Renaissance. The Italian Renaissance Renaissance: means Rebirth People wanted to make society better, interest same as Greek and Romans. Believed

Trade & Commerce• Flourished because of renewed

contact with East• Towns were centers for shipping

& banking; Venice, Pisa & Genoa• Coined money of precious metals

used• Proliferation of banking• Florentine florin was base for

currency weighed “72 grains of gold”, wars made it high finance.

• The “middle class” is formed, formed in the urban centers, charters formed w/ lords.

Venice

Genoa

Pisa

Page 5: The Renaissance. The Italian Renaissance Renaissance: means Rebirth People wanted to make society better, interest same as Greek and Romans. Believed

Trade & Commerce cont.• Guilds associations of merchants,

then artisans governed cities; established wages & prices. Maintained standards of quality on goods, settled conflicts.

• Each guild had a saint, hosted festivals, guilds gave money to build cathedrals and walls

• Invigorated trade allowed people “new doors”

• Belief in individual pops up from this.

Page 6: The Renaissance. The Italian Renaissance Renaissance: means Rebirth People wanted to make society better, interest same as Greek and Romans. Believed

City-States• Renaissance started in N. Italy in 1300’s• Was “cradle” of renaissance and

independent.• Florence Siena and Venice rose as powerful

city states, ruled a region• Governed by guild members, citizens elected• Selection of civic leaders was shady dealings• Connected to Byzantine, Asian & Muslim

merchants• City-States produced, Milan=Metal,

Florence= cloth & banking, Venice=transit• Monarchs & nobles= debt to merchants

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City-States cont.• Florence was most influential City-State,

industry in wool and textile from England and Flanders, 1/3 people worked with these.

• Used profits to buy lavish things to make profit

• Sold insurance to sea traders• Banking was most lucrative, florin was

respected

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Medici• Family was based in Florence• Made money cloth and other goods• Transitioned to banking in mid/late 1300’s• Chief banker of pope• In 1, 5 year period they profited 290,791

florins about 4 million now• Were very shrewd and had political control.

Page 9: The Renaissance. The Italian Renaissance Renaissance: means Rebirth People wanted to make society better, interest same as Greek and Romans. Believed

Medici cont.• Medici ruled Florence at

height of renaissance = interest in civic and cultural life of city

• Maintained peace w/ treaties Milan, Naples and Venice

• Wars were decided by the Medici

• Lorenzo the magnificent, well educated renaissance man, was a scholar, poet composer, banker philanthropist, patron of arts & politician

• Threw parties and financed civic projects.

Page 10: The Renaissance. The Italian Renaissance Renaissance: means Rebirth People wanted to make society better, interest same as Greek and Romans. Believed

As you might imagine the Medici’s had their portraits added to the mural in a respectable high position of the dome seen in the picture above with crowns on their heads.

The dome took more than 11 years to paint and was begun in 1568. The painting represents the ascension to heaven and fall to hell with heaven represented in the upper most sections and hell on the lower ring of the dome.

Page 11: The Renaissance. The Italian Renaissance Renaissance: means Rebirth People wanted to make society better, interest same as Greek and Romans. Believed

Medici cont.• Each Medici leader encouraged development in

arts.• Became patrons of painters, sculptors, architects

and scholars.• Workshops and finances for artist, had fcinest

collections in palaces.• Medici revived Greek and Roman classical idea of

citizen bodies• Financial support of Italian city-states and their

important families inspired a mighty upsurge in optimism, experimentation and creativity

Page 12: The Renaissance. The Italian Renaissance Renaissance: means Rebirth People wanted to make society better, interest same as Greek and Romans. Believed

Activity for the DayActivity for the Day• Earlier this week you read

section 2; it talked about different inventions

• Your task today is…1. You need to think of a

invention that could better society/community

2. You will need to draw it out like Leonardo did with his projects.

3. You will need to include a 100 word explanation of the invention on the back.

4. It needs to be done in pencil

The Telescope, The Microscope, The Flush Toilet, The Printing Press, Clocks, Eyeglasses/Spectacles, The Submarine

Page 13: The Renaissance. The Italian Renaissance Renaissance: means Rebirth People wanted to make society better, interest same as Greek and Romans. Believed

The Spirit• Rediscovery/reintroduction of ancient

Roman and Greek learning• Quintilian writing on education. What do

think?• Spirit of renewal-scholar called humanist• Study of humankind and culture• Believed it would make them well

rounded• 1st great humanist= Petrarch, discovery

of ancient text, led others, lasted till 1600’s

• Innovation sprung up, still Christian, but with independence.

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The Spirit cont.• Gained a intense appreciation

of the individual.• Valued public service, education

Led to a rewarding life.• Renaissance well rounded

person: educated, witty, artistically creative, & skilled in many fields.

• Went from the after life to the world that people lived in.

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