Florentine Republic
Medieval Italian commune
The Florentine Republic was the city-state centered on Florence that governed itself through various republican institutions from the late 13th century until 1532, when the Medici established hereditary rule.
The republic saw periods of genuine popular government alternating with oligarchic control, producing figures like Machiavelli and Savonarola.
It was a center of Renaissance art, banking, and political thought: The Florentine Republic commissioned Michelangelo's David as a symbol of civic virtue.
- MachiavelliPolitical realism's founding theorist
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- MichelangeloFlorentine sculptor and painter
- BotticelliQuattrocento painter from Florence
- ConstitutionGoverning principles document
guild system · Medici family · Leonardo da Vinci · Humanism · Brunelleschi · Dante Alighieri · city-state · Petrarch · conspiracies · banking · Fresco · Uffizi Gallery · Ponte Vecchio · Arno · duomo · Tuscany · Medici · Dante
- Italian HistoryRome, Venice, Naples, Sicily, Milan
- Historic RepublicsSan Marino
- Italian WarsItaly, battle, Machiavelli, French invasion, Spanish conquest
- Medieval ItalyVenice, Genoa, Milan, Pisa, Naples
- Renaissance FlorenceMedici, Medici family, Donatello, Michelangelo, patronage
- Renaissance ItalyLeonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, Last Supper, Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo
Florentine Republicabsolute monarchy
Unrestricted single-ruler government
tyranny · despotism · autocracy · principality · dictatorship
Florentine RepublicHoly Roman Empire
Medieval Germanic political entity