Chapter 13 Flashcards
Venice
Overseas trade
Shipbuilding
Renaissance
Cultural achievements of 14-16 century
Rest on economic/political developments of earlier centuries
Genoa
Crossroads of trade between east and west
Shipbuilding
Milan
Crossroads of trade between east and west
Florence
Wool industry - major factor in financial expansion and population increase
First artistic/literary manifestations of IR appeared here
Papal banking - ex. Medici family
Enormous wealth
Economic foundations were strong
-Kind Edward III repudiated debts Black Death and labor unrest didn’t change the stability
-landlocked city
Communes
Northern Italian cities
-independence from nobles
Nobles settled in cities afterwards -trade Urban real estate Public offices Marriages
Urban nobility
Groups tied by -Blood -Economic interests -Social connections who fought for their rights
Popoplo
People excluded from power b/c of social restrictions
- wanted places in govt
- used armed forces/violence
- wanted republican govt
- failed to establish civil order
- despots and oligarchies formed and ruled Italian city states
Princely court
Signori/oligarchy - facade of republican govt
Allowed oligarch to flaunt wealth
Renaissance - nostalgia for roman govt and shrewdness
What hindered the development of one unified state
Italians attachment to individual city states
5 main powers
Venice Milan Florence Papal States Kingdom of Naples
-governed as monarchs
Venice - power
International power
Oligarchy of merchant aristocrats
Milan power
Despots of Sforza family
Florence power
Authority in several state councils
Authority held by Medici banking family
Papal States / Central Italy power
Pope Alexander VI
- son Cesare Borgia - reasserted papal authority in the papal lands
- model for The Prince
Naples power - southern Italy and sometimes Sicily
Disputed between aragonese and French
-passed to Aragon
Northern Europe v Italy
NE - centralization/consolidation
I - power city states conquered the weak
Renaissance Italians invented machinery of modern
Diplomacy
Resident ambassador - permanent embassies in capitals
- monitoring of relations and commercial ties
What set Italy up for invasion
Venice Florence Milan and papacy had great achievement but inability to form a common alliance
Savonarola
Denounced paganism
Moral vice of Florence
Medici govt
And pope Alexander VI corruption
- religious leader of Florence
- contributed to fall of Medici dynasty
- symbolized internal instability
Why did French King Charles VIII invade itality in 1494?
- Florence Rome Naples
Italy
- focus of intl ambitions
- battleground of foreign armies
League of Cambrai
Louis XII + pope + German emperor
-purpose of stripping rich Venice of its mainland possessions
Habsburg-Valois War
French v German in Italy
Petrarch
Father of IR
-Germanic invasions caused a cultural outbreak and started the Dark ages
Individualism
- secular
- quest for glory
- full development of one’s ability
Ex. Alberti and Cellini
Humanism
- skeptical of authority
- looked to classics (Greek/roman) to understand human nature
- literary culture considered to be educated and civilized
- increasing lay phenomenon
- human potentional
- rhetoricians
Difference bw renaissance humanists and medieval ones
RH - more self conscious about what they were doing and stressed realization of human potential
Secularism
- material world > spiritual one
- attention concentrated in acquiring material things
- usury - lending money at interest
- worried about profits for comfortable life than values
- increased in society
- most still remained Christian
Humanist Valla
Proved On False Donation of Constantine a forgery
-weakened papal authority
Boccaccio - Decameron
Portrays acquisitive and worldly society
Why did church leaders not combat the secular spirit?
They were already rich and fostered the worldly attitude rather than opposing it
What two cities lead the way in arts?
Florence and Rome (HighR)
R
-DA Vinci
Michealango
-Raphael
Early R Italy art
Manifested corporate power
-powerful urban groups (guilds/religious fraternities) commissioned
Middle Ages Art subject
Overwhelming religious
Later 15 century subject
Individuals/ oligarchs glorifying themselves and family - wealth
-became more secular
Art reveals changing patterns of —– in R Italy
Consumption (consumer habits)