Italian Renaissance

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Italian Renaissance

• Benson
• 2008

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Setting the Stage

• What was life like after the Middle Ages?
• Low population (Crusades, plagues)
• Increased trade
• Not strong monarchs everywhere
• Failing feudalism and manorialism

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Renaissance begins in Italy

• -Why?
• -Rich port cities
• -Independent cities
• -Increasing wealth in the merchant class
• http//www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/europe15
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Prospering leads to Problems

• Europe wants this Italian wealth
• France invades Naples
• Asks Spain for help
• Mercenaries
• Sacking Rome
• Spain gains power in Italy
• http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thum
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Society

• Nobility
• Losing money
• Still powerful (advisors, etc.)
• http//www.renaissance-faire.com/New-3.jpg

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Noble behavior

• The Book of the Courtier by Castiglione
• Renaissance Man
• Character, grace, talent
• Warrior, artist, scholar, dancer
• Show off talents
• http//farm4.static.flickr.com/3240/2430438942_abf
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Peasants

• Majority of pop.
• Fewer serfs
• Rent to landowners replaced service to lords
• www.eyeconart.net/.../peasantdance.htm

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Artisans/Merchants

• Higher wages, since there were fewer ppl
  (supply/cost)
• 1. Patricians top of urban society, trade,
  industry, banking
• 2. Burghers shopkeepers, artisans
• 3. Workers unemployed 30-40, hard lives

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Marriage

• Family key to security
• Marriages were business arrangements
• Dowry
• Status
• Alliance (higher society)
• http//www.naergilien.info/planned/Arnolfini_Marri
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