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This 50 minute paginated video is in three main parts which discuss the way different political regimes require different uses for the city and its buildings. First: "Republican Florence' in t...he 15th century looks at Civic Humanism and Patrician Power. It examines the way Florence was governed and how the use of Republican imagery reinforced the civic status as well as looking at the private palaces of the patrician families that made up the government. This is compared to part two: 'Autocratic Milan' which the Visconti and then the Sforza Dukes ruled autocratically, based on their chivalric status and allegiance to the emperor. It looks at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan and the Castello Visconteo in Pavia as well as the Certosa in Pavia, built as a family mausoleum. Part three is 'Ducal Florence' in the 16th century, when the government was overthorwn and the Medici took over as autocratic ducal rulers. It examines the changes they made to republican institutions in Florence and how they adopted a system of chivalric splendour in contrast to their republican forbears.
This 50 minute paginated video is in three main parts which discuss the way different political regimes require different uses for the city and its buildings. First: "Republican Florence' in t...he 15th century looks at Civic Humanism and Patrician Power. It examines the way Florence was governed and how the use of Republican imagery reinforced the civic status as well as looking at the private palaces of the patrician families that made up the government. This is compared to part two: 'Autocratic Milan' which the Visconti and then the Sforza Dukes ruled autocratically, based on their chivalric status and allegiance to the emperor. It looks at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan and the Castello Visconteo in Pavia as well as the Certosa in Pavia, built as a family mausoleum. Part three is 'Ducal Florence' in the 16th century, when the government was overthorwn and the Medici took over as autocratic ducal rulers. It examines the changes they made to republican institutions in Florence and how they adopted a system of chivalric splendour in contrast to their republican forbears.
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