The Medici: Masters of Florence (TRIH ep 572, part 1)
1434 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook introduce a multi-episode series on the Medici, beginning with Cosimo de' Medici (born 1389). The episode outlines Florence's rise through cloth production and financial innovation (double-entry bookkeeping, the Florin), and explains the political structure of the republic.
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Around 1434
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Martin Luther (1483)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Mehmed II (1432)