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The growth of Florence from 1300 to 1500. ... Florence replaced Turin as Italy's capital in 1865 and, in an effort to modernise the city, ...
1864 – Florence becomes part of Italy. [1] 1865 – Italian capital relocated to Florence from Turin. [20] 1867 – Società Geografica Italiana headquartered in Florence. 1871 Palazzo delle Assicurazioni Generali built. Population: 167,093. [21] 1879 – Horse-drawn tram begins operating. 1882 – Great Synagogue of Florence built.
The recovery of lost Greek classics brought to Italy by refugee Byzantine scholars who migrated during and following the Ottoman conquest of the Byzantine Empire in the 15th century were important in sparking the new linguistic studies of the Renaissance, in newly created academies in Florence and Venice.
Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Portrait of a Young Woman (1470–1472), Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan. Facade of Santa Maria Novella (1456) Michelangelo, Doni Tondo (1503–1504). The Florentine Renaissance in art is the new approach to art and culture in Florence during the period from approximately the beginning of the 15th century to the end of the 16th.
Between 1500 and 1650 the population was around 70,000. [47] [48] ... formally the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, is the cathedral of Florence, Italy. It was ...
The House of Medici (English: / ˈ m ɛ d ɪ tʃ i / MED-itch-ee, UK also / m ə ˈ d iː tʃ i / mə-DEE-chee; [4] Italian: [ˈmɛːditʃi]) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici and his grandson Lorenzo "the Magnificent" during the first half of the 15th century.
Less a corridor, more a private walking trail through the center of Florence, the 750-meter (2,460-foot) space was designed for the ruling Medici dynasty in 1565 by artist and architect Giorgio ...
He appointed the first Professor of Greek, Manuel Chrysoloras (the founder of Hellenic studies in Italy), at the University of Florence in 1397. [22] Niccoli was a keen collector of ancient manuscripts, which he bequeathed to Cosimo upon his death in 1437. [23] Poggio Bracciolini succeeded Niccoli as the principal humanist of Florence.