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,
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1430
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Mehmed II (1432)
- Gutenberg prints the 42-line Bible (1455)
- Albrecht Durer (1471)