The Medici (In Our Time)
1430 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Medici family, who dominated Florence's political and cultural life for three centuries. The House of Medici came to prominence in Italy in the fifteenth century as a result of the wealth they had built up through banking. With the rise of Cosimo de' Medici, they became Florence's most powerful and influential dynasty, effectively controlling the city's government.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1430
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Peasants' Revolt in England (1381)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Mehmed II (1432)
- Reign of Mehmed II (1451)