paid her well for her work on the life of Michelangelo for the Casa Buonoratti” (arthistoryarchive.org). The Grand Duke Cosimo II of the Medici Family also supported her work and she even formed a deep friendship with the famed astronomer Galileo. The House of Medici was a powerful family in Florence. They were a very wealthy family. After more reading, it is suggested that the grand duchess of the Medici family did not like Artemisia. She was worried about status and reputation and Artemisia
The Power of Machiavelli’s The Prince Nowadays, it is politically impossible to commit to paper a “training guide” for leaders. There are innumerable detractors to any possible stance or strategy a leader might adopt. As a result of this, all “training” must take place behind closed doors, far from the prying eyes and ears of the news media or the public. But this has not always been the case. Niccolò Machiavelli was brave enough to give the leaders of his day a how-to guide. In this work, The
In the late fifteenth, and early sixteenth centuries the first economic Golden Age began. Two families, the Fugger's and Medici's were of immense wealth and power. Both helped to finance projects for certain people and institutions of power, like the Pope, English Monarchy and the Holy Roman Empire. Their economic success and political influence caused much turmoil then, and even more in the future. Because of the Fuggers' and Medici's wealth and power in society they easily influenced politics,
Cleaver by Tim Parks The book I selected to read was Cleaver by Tim parks. I was in the library looking for a fiction novel and this cover struck me as very interesting. I took the book off the shelf and read the back of it. I saw that it had many good reviews so I decided to give it a try. Tim Parks is the author of thirteen novels including Europa (1997) which was listed for the Booker Prize, Destiny (1999), Judge Savage (2003) and Rapids (2005). His most recent novel is Cleaver (2006)
Public ritual in Renaissance Florence involved many actors and took many forms.1 They could be civic rituals performed by the citizens of the city, or popular rituals where anyone could participate. They could also originate in the private sphere and were made available to the public.2 Public rituals had various purposes, but most importantly, they reproduced hierarchies which conditioned the organisation of power within the Florentine polity, and ensured civil peace and harmony.3 This was particularly
Walburga Amalia Christina was born in early May 1717 in Vienna, she reigned over Austria, Hungary,Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands and Parma. By marriage, she was Duchess of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany and Holy Roman Empress. She started her 40-year reign when her father, Emperor Charles VI, died in October 1740. Although she had been given no formal training to succeed to her father when he died ,he constantly living in the hopes of siring
did not really care too much about the unification. After the Congress of Vienna divided the Italian peninsula among the European powers, especially Austria, Carbonari spread into the Papal States, the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Duchy of Modena and into the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia. The government feared them so much that anyone who was caught attending one of their meetings would be condemned to death. Most leaders of the unification movement were members