The Medici become the leading family of…

1396 CE to 1539 CE

The Medici become the leading family of Florence and foster and inspire the birth of the Italian Renaissance, along with other families of Italy, such as the Visconti and Sforza of Milan, the Este of Ferrara, and the Gonzaga of Mantua.

Greatest artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Giotto, Donatello, Titian and Raphael produce inspired works—their paintwork is more realistic-looking than had been created by Medieval artists and their marble statues rival and sometimes surpass those of Classical Antiquity.

Humanist historian Leonardo Bruni also splits the history in the antiquity, Middle Ages and modern period.

The ideas and ideals of the Renaissance soon spread into Northern Europe, France, England and much of Europe.

In the meantime, the discovery of the Americas, the new routes to Asia discovered by the Portuguese and the rise of the Ottoman Empire, all factors that erode the traditional Italian dominance in trade with the East, cause a long economic decline in the peninsula.

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Donatello View → Filippo Brunelleschi View → Leonardo Bruni View → Leonardo da Vinci View → Michelangelo Buonarroti View → Raphael View → Sandro Botticelli View → Titian View →

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Papal States (Republic of St. Peter) View → Mantua, Lordship of View → Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Marquisate of View → Milan, Duchy of View → Florence, Medici-ruled View → Milan, Duchy of View → Ferrara, Duchy of View → Florence, Medici-ruled View → Mantua, Duchy of View → Florence, Medici-ruled View →

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Renaissance Architecture View → Renaissance literature View → Renaissance music View → Renaissance, Italian View → Renaissance, German View → Renaissance, Portuguese View → Constantinople, Fall of View → Renaissance, Northern View → Renaissance, Spanish View → Renaissance in the Low Countries View → Renaissance in Poland View → Renaissance, French View → Italian War of Charles VIII View → Italian War of Louis XII View → Italian War of 1521–26 View → Italian War of 1536–38 View →

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