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Jan 11, 2024Theestablishmentof communal authority in Florencein 1115 is considered the beginning of the existence of an independent Florentine republic. The highest representative body of the early commune in Florence was a general meeting of citizens convened four times a year, from which a Council with legislative functions was elected.
The oligarchical republic and Florence's political and intellectual apogee (1382-1434) During this period, Florence asserted itself as central Italy's foremost power alongside the Papal States, and experienced considerable economic and commercial expansion.
TheRepublicofFlorence was at the center of the Renaissance—learn more about this powerful Italian state in the latest addition to our 'Ask a Historian' series!
Florence first emerged as a republicinthe early 12th century. A republic is a form of government in which the people of the state have a great deal more power and influence than they previously did under an absolute monarchy, which was the common form of government in Middle Ages Europe.
TheRepublicofFlorence, officially the Florentine Republic (Italian: Repubblica Fiorentina, pronounced [reˈpubblika fjorenˈtiːna], or Repubblica di Firenze), was a medieval and early modern state that was centered on the Italian city of Florencein Tuscany. [1] [2] The republic originated in 1115, when the Florentine people rebelled against the Margraviate of Tuscany upon the death of ...
Jan 17, 2025Florence - Renaissance, Italy, Art: Florentia ("The Flourishing Town") was founded in 59 bce as a colony for soldiers of the armies of Rome and was laid out as a rectangular garrison town (castrum) below the hilltop Etruscan town of Faesulae. Its streets formed a pattern of rectangular blocks, with a central forum, a temple to Mars, an amphitheatre, and public baths. By the 3rd century ce ...
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