Medici was a family that practically dominated the Italian Florence region during the Renaissance from the 13th to the 17th centuries. Three popes (Leo 10, Clemens VII, and Leo XI) were produced, especially from bankers and politicians. The family, which is also connected to the French and British royal families through marriage, later reigned as the ruler of the Great Department of Toscana. It is widely known as a force that played a major role in the development of Renaissance culture, supporting various artists such as Boticelli, Da Vinci, and Michelangelo.
A prestigious family representing Italy in the Renaissance.
It is famous not only as a guardian of the Italian Renaissance, but also as a leading European financier at the time, and as a ruler of the Republic of Florence and the Republic of Tuscany. Originally from the Muselo region in northeast Florence, the Medici family succeeded in commerce and appeared in the political world of Florence from the 14th century.
During Chiompi's riots (1378-1382), Salvestro, one of the members of this family, participated in the popular side and took the lead in attacking the ruling class, so he gained seriousness. After a while, Giovanni Di(13i(13 (1360-1429) was a banker of commerce and the Vatican, and when he collected a lot of money, he jumped into the political world and played an active role. His son Cosimo de Medici (1389-1464: The so-called Cosimoil Vecio) was praised by the National wealth for his contribution to the development of the Republic of Florence after being expelled for years in conflict with the former ruling class. He established banks in 16 European cities, took control of the Vatican's finances, accumulated huge assets, invested private property in municipal administration, and protected and encouraged academic arts. During his grandson, Lorenzo de Medici (1449-1492: also known as Lorenzo Il Magnifico), the prosperity of Florence and Medici peaked, and his outstanding diplomatic skills occupied Florence's pivotal position in Italian politics. It was at this time that Florence's Renaissance culture reached its peak, and he, who had a wide range of humanistic liberal arts, encouraged academic arts, especially philosophical research. Pierrot (1471-1503), who succeeded him, was incompetent and surrendered to the invasion of Charles VIII, king of France, and was expelled (1494) due to opposition from the citizens.
The Medici family returned to Florence in 1512 and produced Pope Leo X and Clemens VII. Medici, who was briefly expelled from Florence when German Emperor Karl V went south (Roman loot), returned with the power of the emperor, and his distant relative Cosimo I (1569-1574) became the Grand Prince of Toscana in 1569, and his son Francesco (1541-1587) drove heavy taxes to ruin the economy. His daughter Maria de Medici became queen of Henry IV, the king of France, and is known in history as Marie de Medicis. The Medici family then married European monarchs. After that, the forces gradually declined, and the family was cut off in 1737 due to the death of the seventh great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grande.
And the Medici produced the Queen of France and the Pope.
This family enjoyed its heyday as a person named Lorenzo Di Medici. Lorenzo played a role in lending money to each monarch based on the Medici Bank and contributed greatly to protecting Italy from powers such as Spain and France. At that time, they were so rich that they said they couldn't fight a war if they didn't borrow money from Medici Bank. And the Republic of Florence, Medici, solidifies the nepotism system and actually transitions to a monarchy. So after his death, he was given the title of Lorenzo Ilmanipico (the great Lorenzo). However, after Lorenzo's death, the Medici family was expelled from the Republic of Florence due to the instigation of Savonarola, the monk of Florence. And decades later, when Lorenzo's second son, Giovanni, became Pope Leo 10, the Medici family established a nepotism system in Florence, and Cosimodi Medici, the nephew of Leo 10, collapsed the republic and founded the Grand National Republic of Toscana to establish a monarchy. From the beginning of the 15th century, the Medici family began to wield power in municipal administration, and Kozimo and his grandson, Lorenz, actually established Medici's dictatorship and entered its golden era as the center of Italian Renaissance culture.
Medici's expulsion and return were repeated from the end of the 15th century, but in 1532, Medici's hereditary system was established and Florence became the capital of the Dictate of Toscana.
It has made its name not only in Florence but also throughout Italy, and is a historic family equivalent to the royal family that sent its daughter to the queen in France.However, not many people know that this famous family is not a historic nobleman from generation to generation, but an ordinary family that started as a peasant, a currency changer, now so-called banker. Therefore, it is natural that this family became famous because of money, not because of its good lineage or martial arts in war.
Gradually increasing the branch network of the financial industry, lending to the king of France, accumulating wealth and fame, and gradually becoming prominent in Florence's politics. At that time, Florence was under the control of several influential families, but the Medici, who made the latest start, took over Florence with Kwon Mo-sul and his skills by controlling the people and using architecture and art as their mass media.
Cosimomedic and LorenzoMedic seem to have been quite clever people.
Even though he was given the title of father of his country, Cosimo did not give up the honor of the supreme citizen.I think it was because of this situation that Medici maintained power for a considerable period of time, even though he was neither a royal family nor a historic noble.
And they glorified their dictatorship by leaving great buildings and artworks.Although the powerful or dynasty disappears silently from history, the Medici occupy a corner of world history as a cultural heritage they left behind.However, their descendants were not as clever as their ancestors. They were deported and returned to their hometown of Florence, but gradually collapsed. However, in the Renaissance era, they knew how to properly use golden universalism and performed the best possible situational and acceptance techniques as citizens.If you look at people's actions, Medici, who played the role of guardian of the Renaissance, you can get a clear answer to the question, "What role should the rich play socially?"
Cosimo I became a lecturer by Greek scholars and a admirer of Plato, reviving the academy Plato had established in his villa. The University of Florence has succeeded in teaching Greek, which has never been known to the Western world over the past 700 years.
This is why the painting of the Athenian School was painted in the Raphael room of St. Peter's Cathedral. Cosimo became the leader of the humanistic movement. With the permission of Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire, people were sent to the East, and the literature they collected became the core of a great "Lorenzo Library (Grandchild's Name)" where no other library could match. Florence's palaces and ruins are made by this family.Michelangelo was favored by Lorenzo and built friendships with artists through this family, leaving this family in 1534 and going to Rome. There were also two popes in his family, Leo X (1513-21) and Clemens VII (1523-34). This family accumulated wealth through banks.
Florence's first relationship with us is said to have sold Koreans who were kidnapped during the Imjin War (1592) at the slave market in Nagasaki, Japan. At this time, Karen merchant Carretti took five Korean boys to Goa, a Portuguese colonial city in India, at a bargain price.
Only one of them was taken to Florence, and it is said that this child became the founder of the Western Corean Province. In Sicily, Italy,
Koreonesi is the hometown of these people's hometowns. Mayor Lee and city councilors came to Seoul in 1988 with the board of directors and petitioned the government to find his grandfather, and the head of the Korean Cultural Heritage Administration visited the site in person. These descendants are famous for their Sicily Corleone family.
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