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it was definitely Florence 8]
medici family ruled Florence :D
The wealthiest areas were the Italian city-states such as Venice, because they controlled the lucrative trade with Asia. Perhaps the wealthiest family was the Medici.
Yes, banking played a crucial role in the wealth and art of the Italian city-states during the Renaissance. The rise of banking families like the Medici in Florence allowed for the accumulation and investment of wealth, which in turn supported the flourishing of artistic patronage and the commissioning of artworks. The Medici, for example, were major patrons of artists such as Michelangelo and Botticelli, elevating their status and contributing to the development of Renaissance art.
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For reasons such as: it glorified the city of Florence, it beautified the city in many ways, and it gave great prestige to the family's name.
The main type of government used in Italian city-states during the Renaissance was a series of oligarchies ruled by specific families, such as the Medici family or the Borgia family. This was known as the signoria.
The Medici were a banking family from Florence, Italy. They gave loans in turn for more money (interest). And they were very smart with their monmey....paying for artist such as Michaelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci. A very helpful link on the Medici: go to google and look up The Medici Family on PBS and is shpuld come up.=Hope this helps!=
Well you see there is a really good story behind that. For starters the Florentines were into swinging, so they thought if the drove the Medici family from the city they would be able to have sex with them. Also, the horses needed some more exercise so they thought it would be good for them to ride out of the city. 1494 was a period of witches and the Florentines suspected the Medici's to be witches so they had to get the, out of the city as quick as possible before they were turned into cabbages.
The government was a city-state ruled by the wealthy Medici family.
In 1914, Girolamo Savonarola had come to the conclusion that the Medici family had to much power in Florence because of their incredible banking and economic systems. Savonarola began to preach to the people of Florence of his ideas and philosophy. He gained many followers and eventually built up enough support to overthrow the Medici Family. He then went on to appoint very famous Machiavelli to be his secretary.
In July 1378 in Florence, Italy, the so-called "Ciompi" launched their revolt against the stablishment in general, and against the Medici in particular. The Pallominy family was a rival family of the Medici and supported the Ciompi as an attempt to overthrow them from power. The Ciompi were briefly succesfusful, however they were defeated shortly after by the counter-revolution led by Salvestro De Medici, who reinstated the Medici family to the control of the city's government.