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The Role Of The Medici Family In The Florentine Renaissance

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What role did the patronage of the Medici family play in creating the conditions for the Florentine Renaissance? What kind of a leadership role did they play? The Medici family of Florence, Italy played a very important role in shaping and creating the conditions for the Florentine Renaissance to take place. The family had a great gift for business, and obtained their wealth through their successful and respected bank, which had been passed down from generation to generation since its creation in 1397. The Medici family had always been generous patrons, or financial supporters, of the arts and believed in using their money and wealth to promote beauty, truth, and wisdom in the world, three values that were important and prominent points in …show more content…

When trying to learn about the renaissance, it is not about looking at their world through our modern eyes. Instead, we should try to look at our world through the eyes of the people of the renaissance and we should be trying to generate a renaissance in our world and societies. With the help of the great minds and artists of the past, we could learn lessons that could better our society, like how to spend our money and how to use the humanities to improve our lives. The narrator states that if rather than just being tourists and studying the renaissance through checking off notable figures and dates and instead learn to absorb the ambition of renaissance leaders, we may come away with a new understanding of how we can in turn, use those ambitions to make our society a better place. To some, studying the renaissance may seem like a waste of time or something that has no use to us in our modern world. However, the reason to study the renaissance and other periods of history is to learn about good, provocative, and inspiring ideas that have been lost in time and put them to good use, using them to solve problems in conflict in our own world today or to build upon ideas of the past so that we can implement them in our …show more content…

I think that it would be interesting to view history from a different perspective, from the view of the people of the past looking at our world, rather than us looking at history from our perspective of the past. I think that often, when I try to study history I fall into the way of learning that the narrator described as being wrong, studying key dates and figures in order to try to get a sense of what that time was like. But, history is not supposed to just be told from the perspective of a few prominent individuals and their accomplishments, nor can an entire period of time be understood just from a few key events and dates. In order to understand a time period like the renaissance, we need to view history from the perspective of the people that were experiencing it, like the narrator stated. From this perspective, we can view history as something we need to learn to know about where we came from, but also to take ideas and values from different times and apply them to our world and society today. I think that by viewing history from the perspectives that the narrator specified in the video, we

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