Notes on Movie

• 1389- boy baptised, son of local birth-Medici
• Florence artists- Michalangelo, Leonardo,
• Men were searching for treasure in the Holy Church
• They were really after knowledge and secrets from the ancient world
• 1410- Belasiavaro was elected Pope
• City was a failure though because their dome was not finished
• Phillipo Brunilesci- self taught genius obsessed with the mysteries of the ancient worlds, his style was "unorthodox"
• The Medici's however took him and brought back concepts of the past
• Brunilesci influenced people across Europe
• Backed up by Medici's and set to work on the Dome
• he wrote his calculations on code, so people wouldn't steal his ideas
• he put a dome within a dome
• He made people eat and drink while building
• 14??- giovani medici died
• 1433- Cosimo was summoned to the palace of government- awaited were the Alebici and wanted to wipe him out
• He was imprisoned
• They couldnt kill him unless the people agreed
• he was accused of treason and was found guilty
• Cosimo still had friends even in the enemy..he made a deal and got out of death
• He and his family were banished
• Brunilessci was thrown in jail and the dome building stopped
• Florence stopped prospering
• Cosimo was waiting to be summoned because the city was downspiraling
• the people who had took over the city didnt help the city at all...friends of Medici went into the city and Medici was offered the city and he accepted
• Cosimo decided everything that had to do with the city
• Money came back to Florence and work continued on the dome
• The bank became larger and collected money from other parishes
• The Medici bank was the most prosperous business
• Brunillesco invented linear perspective- 3D
• He put bricks and verticle bricks and it was finished
• Brunelissci proved that mand can defeat the impossible
• "It touches the skies and casts a shadow" - talking about the dome
• Art and architect flourished in Florence
• Cosimo baptised a son and grandson
• He was named "Father of the Fatherland"

• 1466- the Medici were in danger of rival families
• People were trying to kill the father-"boss"
• Lorenzo saved his father and they remained in control of political and economic control of the empire
• 1449- medici family was at risk..medici father fell in and died
• Lorenzo was the inheriter...he was the God Father of Florence
• Lorenzo helped the people of Tuscany in exchange for what they could afford
• The Medici had a chapel full of pictures of their 3 generations and all their friends
• Everyone loves Lorenzo- he's fun and poetic
• Lorenzo wants to explore and finds an artist named Monticelli
• Lorenzo was still in danger
• the pazzi were the second richest family in Florence- they were older and nobler
• Lorenzo makes sure that they are kept out of the business of Florence
• Pazzi had to eliminate the 2 brothers of Medici
• Sunday 1478- Easter day- Medici were gathered to celebrate
• Juliano Medici-stabbed 19 times and died instantly
• Lorenzo was unaccounted for- he was wounded and he showed himself to the crowd to show that they were still in business
• Violence swept throught Florence has Medici's supporteers wanted revenge
• Medici's power hung by a thread
• Lorenzo went to negoiate alone with people in the south
• Traveled 300 miles -1479 arrived in Naples- he made peace with everyone and the enemy troops were called off- Lorenzo saved Florence from destruction
• Hailed by his grateful city
• His experiences had changed him and he worked to work to keep their family powerful
• he adopted his brothers son
• used power and wealth to magnificant effect
• Leonardo da Vinci- great talent-reflected the natural world
• Monticelli- Paegan mythologies
• Savonerola- sickened by Lorenzo's world and thought it was full of sin, opposed to any visual art not religious
• 1487- Lorenzo's wife died of turberculoses at age 34
• Lorenzo found solace in art- 1488 founded first art school in history-found Michaelangelo and put him under his wing and took him into his family
• Savonerola got an audience of people to hear him- he said he could see the future and the downfall of Florence with Lorenzo
• 1492- Lorenzo became seriously ill and turned to the church
• Lorenzo called Savonerola to his death bed and Lorenzo was damned
• Lorenzo died at the age of 43
• Savonerola destroyed everything Lorenzo created and burned books, wigs, jewels, cosmetics..everything from the Rennaissance
• Became known as the "Bonfire of the Vanities"
• Florence became a vision of hell