HIST-308 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Middle Ages, Bourgeoisie
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There was well known great names of families in florence who were industrialists in bankers. The medici family, strozzi, pazzi, rucellai, and others who were about 3% of the population to the city because of intermarriage and business partnerships including patronage and political alliances. These things dominate a government, culture, society of the city throughout the. Humanism was not a dominant ideology of this class and they also practiced it was another group of elite citizens were close to the political leaders of the commune and mercantile individuals. The economy of the florentine republic was not a simple progression. The development of the commune and the wealth went through many stages and changes between the 13th and 16th centuries that were extremely complicated. The division of the guelphs and ghibellines had stirred some tension. They were murdering each other because of the division. Ghibellines seize power in florence and exiled families who are guelph.