Renaissance: cultural achievements of the 14th through 16th centuries that rested on the economic & political developments of earlier centuries I. Economic Growth in northern Italian cities , , and : all profited from overseas trade with and ► northern advancements in shipbuilding allowed ships to sail year round, increased the ● volume of goods transported, and accelerated the speed of travel enormous profits form increased trade were continually reinvested to earn more, ● becoming the wealthiest states of : location of the first artistic and literary manifestations of the Italian ► Renaissance Florentine merchants acquired control of banking allowing them to dominate ● European banking banking profits were invested in the urban industries of ● wool industry: resulted in financial expansion and population increase of » II. Communes & Republics Communes : sworn associations of free men seeking completolitical and economic ► independence from local lords Guilds led communes by building city walls regulating trade, raising – ●Merchant taxes, keeping civil order Urban Nobility noble families attracted by wealth and opportunity in the city – ● married into wealthy urban merchant families Gained control of communes restricting citizenship and rights of the urban » underclass Popolo: disenfranchised, heavily taxed portion of thopulation who led armed ► rebellions to take over city governments establishing republican governments repeated the same abuses of power as the noble communes, and failed to ● maintain civil order Signori & Oligarchies: despots and merchant aristocracies took control of northern Italian ► cities in the wake of failed popolos 15th century political power, and elite culture was centered in thrincely » courts of despots and oligarchs used to display and assert wealth through patronage of the arts ○ . Political Systems & Diplomatic Relations b/w City-States Disunited Italian peninsula: political loyalty towards their individual city-states prevented ► the development of a unified Italian state. 15th century: 5 powers of ●
Renaissance: cultural achievements of the 14th through 16th centuries that rested on the economic & political developments of earlier centuries I. Economic Growth in northern Italian cities ► , , and : all profited from overseas trade with and northern ● advancements in shipbuilding allowed ships to sail year round, increased the volume of goods transported, and accelerated the speed of travel ● enormous profits form increased trade were continually reinvested to earn more, becoming the wealthiest states of ► : location of the first artistic and literary manifestations of the Italian Renaissance ● Florentine merchants acquired control of banking allowing them to dominate European banking ● banking profits were invested in the urban industries of » wool industry: resulted in financial expansion and population increase of II. Communes & Republics ► Communes : sworn associations of free men seeking completolitical and economic independence from local lords ●Merchant Guilds – led communes by building city walls regulating trade, raising taxes, keeping civil order ● Urban Nobility – noble families attracted by wealth and opportunity in the city married into wealthy urban merchant families » Gained control of communes restricting citizenship and rights of the urban underclass ► Popolo: disenfranchised, heavily taxed portion of thopulation who led armed rebellions to take over city governments establishing republican governments ● repeated the same abuses of power as the noble communes, and failed to maintain civil order ► Signori & Oligarchies: despots and merchant aristocracies took control of northern Italian cities in the wake of failed popolos » 15th century political power, and elite culture was centered in thrincely courts of despots and oligarchs ○ used to display and assert wealth through patronage of the arts . Political Systems & Diplomatic Relations b/w City-States ► Disunited Italian peninsula: political loyalty towards their individual city-states prevented the development of a unified Italian state. ● 15th century: 5 powers of
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