1. Renaissance in Politics
“Something extraordinary happened…to change western culture forever…”

2. Page 209… “a new faith in human effort and achievement”
“Renaissance thinking changed the way people saw themselves and the world around them”
Medieval vs. Renaissance

3. Renaissance in Politics…
Individuals
Medici Family
Machiavelli
Savonarola
Martin Luther
City-States
Venice
Florence
What are the linking ideas?

4. Individuals: Machiavelli
+ pg 223

5. Individuals: Savonarola
Dominican order preacher
Against the lavish excesses of the Church
Rallied Michelangelo and others to his cause
“Bonfires of the vanities”
Preaching against Pope Alexander VI was his downfall.

6. City States… Italy was not a united/great empire.
Italian renaissance was isolated in many ways.
City states: independently controlled jurisdictions. Many were ‘democratic’ at some point.
Stakeholders: Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Pope/Catholic Church, City-States

7. Individuals: The Medici Family
Influential for more than three centuries
Power Wealth
Alliances
Church positions
Royal family marriages
Waging war
Wool/silk merchants
Bankers

8. Individuals: The Medici Family

9. Individuals: The Medici Family

10. Individuals: The Medici Family
Lorenzo
Cosimo’s grandson
Brother killed
Ruled Florence
Renaissance man?
Popularity via beauty, well-run, strategic exile.
Catherine
Queen of France
Ensured her three sons reigned
Hardliner policies against Protestant Reformers

11. Ideas…
Cultivating disagreement (pg 225)