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#medici #florence #history About the Medici family and the rise of the Republic of Florence. Support the channel and watch the video before anyone else - / redroomlimb The Medici are not only one of the most famous banking clans in history, but also a family to which the city-state of Florence owed its fame not only as a rich and powerful republic, but also its unofficial title of the capital of the Renaissance. It was here that the Italian Renaissance manifested itself in full, thanks to the names of Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Pico della Mirandola and so on down the well-known list. And all this thanks to the legendary patronage of the banking family, who, although not aristocrats by birth, for many years personified power in Florence - power not de jure, but de facto. However, one should not think that this power was easy for the heroes of the financial markets of the late Middle Ages - this history is full of its dramatic episodes: shameful exiles and triumphant returns, friendship and enmity with the Popes and the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, crusades and civil wars - in general, the history of the Apennine Peninsula of this era is rich in all sorts of events. And today we will look at several generations of the Medici dynasty, at those of its representatives, because of whom Florence is still associated with this family. Should we trust Niccolo Machiavelli, how the Medici achieved their influence, how their bank was organized and why Lorenzo the Magnificent was not so magnificent (ask Savonarola) - in today's issue on the Redroom channel. Links: Subscribe to Instagram - / egor_redroom Patreon for minted coin - / redroomlimb Follow videos in VK - https://vk.com/redroom_video Host, script: Egor Zyryanov Editing - Alena Pashko, Ilya Karamzinsky Camera operator - Alena Pashko Signature track: Alexander Zender Films used: Medici (TV series) Borgia (TV series) The Merchant of Venice