Can anyone please help me with the following. I need help please. 1a) Why would
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Can anyone please help me with the following. I need help please.1a) Why would Lorenzo de Medici want his son and nephew to become high officials in the church?
1b) In what ways did the Medici popes continue the family's talent for art patronage? What was different?
1c)What mistakes did Popes Leo X and Clemens VII make? What effects did their mistakes have on Florence? The church? Europe?
Please I need help. Can anyone please help me with the following. I need help please.
1a) Why would Lorenzo de Medici want his son and nephew to become high officials in the church?
1b) In what ways did the Medici popes continue the family's talent for art patronage? What was different?
1c)What mistakes did Popes Leo X and Clemens VII make? What effects did their mistakes have on Florence? The church? Europe?
Please I need help.
1a) Why would Lorenzo de Medici want his son and nephew to become high officials in the church?
1b) In what ways did the Medici popes continue the family's talent for art patronage? What was different?
1c)What mistakes did Popes Leo X and Clemens VII make? What effects did their mistakes have on Florence? The church? Europe?
Please I need help.
Explanation / Answer
Piero and the exile of the Medici: 1492-1494
Lorenzo's son Piero is twenty in 1492 when he succeeds, without opposition, to his father's position of leadership in Florence. Lorenzo's relative inattention to the family bank means that Piero is the first Medici to attempt to control Florence without an ample supply of funds. And he lacks his father's diplomatic skills. Early in his reign he shows signs of abandoning Lorenzo's equal-handed relationship with Naples and Milan, inclining instead to Naples.
Ludovico Sforza, the duke of Milan, fears a shift in the balance of power. He invites the king of France to march through his territory and to claim the Angevin throne of Naples. The approach of the French king, Charles VIII, proves a disaster for Florence.
Charles VIII crosses the Alps in September 1494 with a massive army of 30,000 men. They pass peacefully through the territory of Milan and no doubt expect to do the same through Florence's Tuscan lands. France's quarrel is only with Naples.
But Florence has been recently identified as an ally of Naples. Sensing a crisis, the young Piero de' Medici imitates his father's famous act of personal diplomacy (his visit in 1479 to the king of Naples). Without informing the signoria, the official government of Florence, Piero makes his way to the camp of the French king.
In this encounter between two inexperienced young rulers, both in their early twenties, the Frenchman has the better of the bargain. Charles VIII emphasizes that all he wants is an assurance of Florence's good will, but adds that a convincing token of this would be the delivery into French hands of several key castles together with the ports of Pisa and Livorno. The records suggest that the French are astonished when Piero agrees.
So, when they hear of it, are the signoria in Florence. They protest that Piero has no authority to cede these Florentine possesssions, but it is too late. The French enter Florence and occupy Pisa (glad to be rid of the Florentine yoke) before moving on south.
When Piero returns to Florence, he is summoned to appear before the signoria. He makes the mistake of doing so with an armed guard. The city's bell is tolled to call the people to the piazza. A mob ransacks the Medici palace.
Piero and his two brothers escape from the city. It is nearly twenty years before his family returns. Meanwhile Florence has a leader in waiting of a very different kind. The Dominican friar Savonarola is on hand to transform worldly Florence into an austere city of God.http://historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistoriesResponsive.asp?historyid=aa24#c719