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medici family

& Humanism

2. Petrarch's Renaissance Role

1. Francesco Petrarch

HUMANISM

3. Notable features of Florence

2. Four Popes

1. Family Background

MEDICI FAMILY

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1434 - 1737

the medici Family

Medici Family Fortress

  • also known as the House of Medici, French Medicis, an Italian Bourgeois Family that ruled Florence
  • Tuscany during most of the period
  • The Medici Bank of Florence was the most important financial institution in 15th-century Europe.
  • The Medici Bank was the chief bank for the Roman Catholic curia, and it had branches in the major cities of Italy, as well as in London, Lyon, Geneva, Bruges, and Avignon.

First attained wealth and political power in Florence in the 13th century through its success in commerce and banking.

  • The family’s support of the arts and humanities made Florence the cradle of the Renaissance
  • A significant amount of the art and architecture that was produced in Florence at the beginning of the Renaissance was due to the Medici.
  • They also supported science. They supported the famous scientist Galileo Galilei in his scientific efforts.
  • The last Medici ruler died without a male heir in 1737, ending the family dynasty after almost three centuries.
  • The Medici Family are called the Godfathers of the Renaissance
  • The de Medici during their rule of Florence in the fifteen century did much to influence the Renaissance and to enable the great artists, humanists, and writers, to produce their works that have been so influential down the centuries.

the medici coat of arms

Some Notable Features of Florence

boboli gardens

Uffizi gallery

palazzo medici

medici chapel

  • The family brought stability and peace to the city of Florence.
  • The de Medici largely peaceful rule did much to promote the Renaissance in the city.
  • Treaty of Lodi
  • The de Medici was very instrumental in the growing interest in Greek culture and history.

1304 - 1374

the humaNism

Francisco Petrarca

  • commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest Humanists.
  • 'Father of Humanism'.
  • The young Francesco entered the church and took minor orders. This meant that while he was a cleric, he was able to live and work in society. The young Italian was in financially straitened circumstances after his father's death, and he began to serve the powerful Cardinal Colonna.
  • Francesco Petrarca was born on July 20, 1304, in Arezzo, Tuscany (now Italy). He moved to Avignon, France, with his family, as a child.
  • In France, Petrarch studied law, as his father had wished. However, his passion was for literature, particularly that of ancient Greece and Rome. After his father’s death in 1326, Petrarch left law to focus on the classics.
  • One day while attending mass in 1327, he saw a lady called Laura, whom he fell in love with at first sight, and she became his muse and inspired most of his greatest poetry. During his travels on diplomatic missions, he would write poetry in praise of Laura.
  • He is also known for being the first to develop the concept of a historical “Dark Ages”.
  • He traveled widely in Europe, served as an ambassador, and has been called “the first tourist” because he traveled just for pleasure. During his travels, he collected crumbling Latin manuscripts and was a prime mover in the recovery of knowledge from writers of Rome and Greece.
  • He is also considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language.
  • In 1341, he was invited to Rome and was crowned as Poet Laureate, only the second poet to be honored in this way since the fall of the Empire.
  • In 1367 he returned to Padua and remained there until he died in 1374.

petrarch's RENAISSANCE role

Francesco Petrarca, or as we call him, Petrarch, was a 14th-century Italian poet whose works helped inspire some of the core tenets of the Renaissance.

  • It is arguably his works, especially his poetry in his native tongue, that were most influential. Vernacular poetry had begun to flourish in the 13th and 14th centuries, and the works of Dante and the Sicilian School are still considered masterpieces of European literature.
  • Petrarch is often credited as the sonnet's inventor, one of the most popular poetic forms in the western tradition. This is a fourteen-line poem in the meter known as iambic pentameter.
  • Most notable, perhaps, was his obsession with the Classical writings of ancient Greece and Rome. Petrarch's deep appreciation of Classical knowledge, his emphasis on human rationalism and critical thinking, and his tendency to challenge the medieval traditions of the Catholic Church set the foundations for the movement of humanism, a philosophy that dominated Renaissance thinking.
  • The Italian clearly influenced Shakespeare, and he developed his own style of the sonnet, known as the Shakespearian sonnet, based on Petrarch’s verse.
  • He was not only a great poet; he also was a great prose writer. He wrote the first autobiography since the classical era, and this was a landmark in the development of the genre and encouraged more writers to compose their memoirs and life-story. His dialogues, letters, and other works, in Latin, inspired many imitators in the Renaissance.
  • Petrarch also developed new literary devices such as the extended metaphor. He was not the first to write about love in a very romantic way and about an idealized beloved.
  • His use of sonnets to express his inner life and emotions was revolutionary and original. This did much to encourage poets to write in a more personal and introspective style.
  • Petrarch's verse became the model for lyrical poets for many centuries. His sonnets, known as the Petrarchan Sonnet, were very popular in Elizabethan England.
  • In 1341, Petrarch became an Italian celebrity, when he was crowned as the poet laureate, or official state poet, of Rome. He was the first person to receive this title since the Roman Empire.

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