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Florence was the birthplace of Renaissance
Florence produced or supported some of the greatest artists in history:
Giotto – Pre-Renaissance painter who broke with medieval style.
Filippo Brunelleschi – Invented linear perspective and designed the Duomo (Santa Maria del Fiore), an architectural marvel.
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Donatello – All either from Florence or heavily supported by it.
Modern Banking and Finance
Florence revolutionized European finance:
Florin – Florence's gold coin (introduced 1252) became the dominant currency in Europe for centuries.
Medici Bank – One of the most powerful banks in history, founded in 1397.
Introduced practices like double-entry bookkeeping (which enabled modern accounting)
Florence Florint was one of the most used currency of that time.
The Medici were Florence’s ruling family and among the most influential patrons in European history.
Funded artists, philosophers, and architects.
Produced four popes and two queens of France.
Petrarch, Marsilio Ficino, and Pico della Mirandola worked or studied in Florence.
The Platonic Academy of Florence revived Greek philosophy in the West
Dante Alighieri (wrote The Divine Comedy), Petrarch, and Boccaccio wrote in the Tuscan dialect, which became the basis of modern Italian.
Dante’s work also fused Christian theology with classical philosophy in a new literary form.
Florence was a republic for much of the Middle Ages:
Its republican experiments inspired later political thought.
Niccolò Machiavelli, a Florentine diplomat, wrote The Prince, a foundational text in modern political science.
Brunelleschi’s use of engineering, mathematics, and optics in architecture was groundbreaking.
Florence fostered scientific inquiry during the Renaissance, setting the stage for later thinkers like Galileo (who studied in nearby Pisa and Florence under Medici patronage).
