One of the biggest challenges in pulling together this webpage was the complex power structure that ruled Florence (someone called it the "institutional geometry" of the Florentine Republic). The reality is that the arts will almost certainly not be mentioned, except the art of war. This webpage will try to rapidly outline a little bit of the history of Firenze, at least with respect to the evolution of the Renaissance through to the appointment of Alessandro de’ Medici as hereditary monarch in 1532, which would be followed by the death of the Republic (1569). constantly appear in the history books, but what role did they play, and were they really that important? And what of the Popes, or the cities Rome, Venice, Milan, Genoa, Naples, or the French, and what about the constant competition with Pisa, Lucca, Siena, and the other Tuscan city states ? The House of Medici with their Palazzo Pitti, the Signoria, Florentine families such as Bardi, Strozzi, Tornabuoni, etc. Reading through these webpages about Firenze one is tempted to think of the city and its population as being single minded in its support of the arts.
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