What was happening in Italy in 1452 to 1519?

Answer 1

Daily life in Verona was not different from other Italian cities of the time.

Social classes : the upper class were probably the landed aristocrats, or the richest of the merchants and master artisans, under them artisans of different grade, and at the bottom the serfs, and the low-life.

Houses: stone palaces for the rich, with frescoes and walled gardens, masonry for the middle-class, wooden attics or nothing at all for the poor.

Food: no tomato, potato, turkey, maize or other food originating in America, of course. A diet based on meat (expecially game) for the rich, little or no protein for the poors.

Religion: Christian Catholic, for almost everyone (this is before Luther), perhaps not much felt (there were some movements for "reform" from time to time), some Jews

Answer 2

Italy was made up of a number of independent states. Some were duchies, and, even from the earliest times, some were republics. There was nothing unusual about this in the eyes of the Italians. After all, Rome had been a republic.

With its central location for sea transportation, it developed states that were important maritime powers and the homes of wealthy merchants. It was also central to the Church, and, for that reason, to all Europe. Its nations included some with powerful navies, such as Venice.

The Byzantine Empire had a presence in Italy for much of the Middle ages, and at times it was important. In the places it controlled, the legal system was entirely derived from Roman law, and the political structure was Roman. The Byzantines had a system of primary education that was available to all, at the village level, and this continued through the empire for its whole history. So Italian children would be far more likely to receive education than other children in Western Europe, and this was likely to include girls.

The result was that life in Italy was did not have the reciprocal obligations of serf and lord dominating its economics, as much of the rest of Western Europe did. Nor were the nobility everywhere the most important people; in Italy, merchants often ruled.

People in Italy had certain opportunities that were not normally available elsewhere. It was much easier for the Italians to rise in importance based on their own merits that it was in other places. They were likely to be more able to assert their personal independence in society at large. On the other hand, as a cultural matter, they were more closely tied to their families and the old notion of the pater familias that some groups in Europe.

Aside from these things, life in Italy was mostly similar to what it was in the rest of medieval Europe. There is a link below to a related question addressing life in the Middle Ages.

Answer 3

it was horrible, the used to wee and poo in a bucket, and chuck it out the window.

Answer 4

very poor, diseases everywhere, people dying. Just like the 1400's.

Answer 5

Leonardo da vinci was born and lived for 67 years. Inside those years many things that our generations uses now, were the blueprints of Leonardo da Vinci then.