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Aim: How did the economic and political situation in Italy lay the groundwork for the Renaissance?

Aim: How did the economic and political situation in Italy lay the groundwork for the Renaissance?. September 25, 2012. Economic Growth (1100s-1400s). Italian city-states dominate long-distance trade (Venice, Milan, Genoa).

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Aim: How did the economic and political situation in Italy lay the groundwork for the Renaissance?

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  1. Aim: How did the economic and political situation in Italy lay the groundwork for the Renaissance? September 25, 2012

  2. Economic Growth (1100s-1400s) • Italian city-states dominate long-distance trade (Venice, Milan, Genoa). • Florence establishes wealth through control of papal banking and the wool industry.

  3. Political Developments (domestic) • City-states remained standing during the Middle Ages (less severe invasions). Had a head start and bought their freedom from the nobles quickly. • Italian nobles are tremendously interested in the cities (why?) Marry into commercial families to form a new urban nobility. • Reaction of the popolo to the urban nobility (1200s).

  4. Political Developments (foreign policy) • Five dominant city-states. By 1300, their governments were oligarchies. • Venice • Milan – Ruled by the Sforza family • Florence – Ruled by the Medici banking family (1434-1492) • Papal States – Ruled by Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503) and his son Cesare Borgia. • Naples Is centralization possible in this kind of political framework? How did these city-states maintain a balance of power? Why do you think that these will be the places where the Renaissance begins?

  5. Political Developments (foreign policy) • Lack of centralization makes the city-states weak • The French under Charles VIII invade Italy in 1494, succeed in taking Rome, Florence, Naples. • Pope Leo X (1513-1521) forms an alliance with Spain and the Holy Roman Empire to drive France out of Italy. • France returns to Italy in 1522 to fight it out with Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (Hapsburg-Valois wars)

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