With this post of today I want to give it a break to my
quantum physics trail of posts and dedicate this one to my wonderful daughter
Giorgia.
As I just said I’m
pretty much glued to my PC watching Youtubes by the hundreds and recently (thanks to TED too) I found
“entire chapters” that talk about the renaissance and explain the reason why it
was born and developed at the highest level in my mother country, in fact it
was in a handful of Northern Italian city/states where the renaissance was born.
It would eventually spread to northern Europe but it was in Italy that its
rebirth truly began. Independent city
states such as Florence, Venice, and Rome grew wealthy through trade and
banking creating a class of pretty wealthy businessmen.
In general you can say that Italy had three advantages that
made it the birthplace of the Renaissance: thriving cities (1), a
wealthy merchant class (2), and
the classical heritage of Greece and Rome (3). One of the key reasons explaining why the Renaissance started
as an artistic period at all was the emergence of the secular curiosity. During
the long feudal period in Western Europe, education was done through the
church. Add to this the Black Death, and a combination of other factors, led to
the decline of feudalism.
One major reason why the Renaissance began in Italy is mainly
linked to geography. The city-states
of Italy, positioned on the Mediterranean Sea, were centers for trade and
commerce, the first port of call for both goods and new ideas. Renaissance
eventually spread from northern Italy to the rest of Europe. Italy had three
advantages that made it the birthplace of the Renaissance: thriving cities, a
wealthy merchant class, and the classical heritage of Greece and Rome.
Part of the reasons why it began in Italy is because of the
history of Rome and the Roman Empire. Another reason why it began in Italy is
because Italy had become very wealthy and the wealthy were willing to spend
their money supporting artists and geniuses. City-states played a big role in the rule of Italy at the time too.The first factor that made Italy important in the Renaissance is
the fact that it had been the center of the Roman Empire. The Renaissance got
its name because it was supposed to be a rebirth of civilization in Europe
after the fall of Rome. The Medici family ruled the city of Florence throughout
the entire Renaissance period. They had a major influence on the growth of the
Italian Renaissance through their patronage of the arts and humanism. The
Medici families were wool merchants and bankers (all the banks in the world use what the Medici developed for profitable
banking). Both businesses were very profitable and the family became extremely
wealthy.
In this period, which we call the Early Renaissance; Florence
is not a city in the unified country of Italy, as it is now. Instead, Italy was
divided into many city-states
(Florence, Milan, Venice etc.), each with their own government (some were ruled by despots, and
others were republics).
The political unit which contributed most to the development
of the Renaissance was the city state, and city state republics. Why was
Florence called the cradle of the Renaissance? It’s called the cradle because
the Renaissance was called a "rebirth" and Florence was the most
powerful city in the Renaissance period.
It was in a handful of Northern Italian city states that the Renaissance emerged from. It would eventually
spread to northern Europe but it was in Italy where this rebirth truly began. ...
Independent city states such as Florence, Venice, and Rome grew wealthy through
trade and banking creating a class of affluent businessmen.
Florence became a very wealthy city because of the trade of
textiles, especially for the trade of wool. ... As the Renaissance spread
throughout Europe, Florence became a model for other places to copy. Florence
was very prosperous during the Renaissance. There were many guilds that were
very successful in Florence.
The Renaissance was a rebirth of ancient Greek and Roman
thinking and styles, and both the Roman and Greek civilizations were
Mediterranean cultures, as is Italy. The best single reason for Italy to be the
birthplace of the Renaissance is the concentration of wealth, power, and
intellect (including the
Church).
The Medici family ruled the city of Florence throughout the
Renaissance. They had a major influence on the growth of the Italian
Renaissance through their patronage of the arts and humanism. The Medici family
was wool merchants and bankers.
The Renaissance eventually spread from northern Italy to the
rest of Europe. Italy had three advantages that made it the birthplace of the
Renaissance: thriving cities, a wealthy merchant class, and the classical
heritage of Greece and Rome. The Renaissance eventually spread from northern
Italy to the rest of Europe. Italy had three advantages that made it the
birthplace of the Renaissance: thriving cities, a wealthy merchant class, and
the classical heritage of Greece and Rome.
In addition there was
the existence of large city-states in northern Italy. This was because
of the crisis in the Catholic Church in Italy and throughout all of Europe.
Many feared that Italy would even turn Protestant. This caused a change in
direction in the Catholic Church and led it to change its direction. One major reason the Renaissance began in Italy is linked to
geography. The city-states of Italy, positioned on the Mediterranean Sea, were
centers for trade and commerce, the first port of call for both goods and new
ideas i.e. Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of
Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Boccaccio wrote a number of
notable works, including The Decameron and so on, The main “trio” of writers
that every Italian citizen who is well educated is the Dante (Alighieri), Petrarca and Boccaccio (whose writings are – for the
most part – generally censored for students in my country). In
fact Francesco Petrarca, commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was a scholar and
poet of Renaissance in Italy and was one of the earliest humanists. His
rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with inventing the
14th-century Renaissance. Petrarch is often considered the founder of Humanism.
Lorenzo de' Medici was an Italian statesman, Lorenzo de' Medici was an Italian statesman, de facto ruler of
the Florentine Republic and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of
Renaissance culture in Italy. Also known as Lorenzo the Magnificent by
contemporary Florentines, he was a magnate, diplomat, politician and patron of
scholars, artists and poets. In short very much (if not everything we love and
appreciate today comes from the Mediterranean area……where Italy has always been
the center of.
- https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/early-renaissance1/beginners-renaissance-florence/a/florence-in-the-early-renaissance
- https://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/renaissance1/section2/
- https://dailyhistory.org/Why_did_the_Italian_Renaissance_End%3F
- https://www.brighthubeducation.com/history-homework-help/92190-why-did-the-renaissance-begin-in-italy/
- https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/why-city-florence-considered-important-during-152401
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