Notes 10/22- The Medici taking in Michaelangelo

• The city states in Italy had a lot of warring against each other. 
• Florence annexed Pisa in 1406
• There was almost constant battle going on throughout central italy.
• Mercenary warfare was the fad of the day. 
• Genoa beats Pisa, but then Genoa's influence decreases while Venice's influences.
• **Treaty of  Lodi- Last for 40 years or so, first time that there was peace in central and northern italy in a long time. 
• Another thing that happens in this period is exploration
• Columbus was Italian. 
• The European exploration of the renaissance is probably one of the least studied parts of the renaissance. 

• the Pazzi were a rival family in florence. Lorenzo, was not as good as Cosimo when it came to dealing with business stuff, especially being diplomatic. The vatican owed the medici bank a lot of money. So the Papacy made closer relations with the Pazzi family hoping that the Pazzi would take out the Medici and make their debts not exist anymore. 
• On easter day, they killed Giuliano De Medici, lorenzo's brother. 
• The people of Florence were concerned about Lorenzo's survival. 

• There was nothing like art galleries or any sort of an art world in the 15th century. 

• Savonarola- a dominican monk. Opposed to any kind of visual art if it was not religious. 
• He was sickened by Italy, and turned his hate to Lorenzo as the focus of all that was sinful.
• July 29, 1487- Lorenzo's wife died from tuberculosis at the age of 34
• Lorenzo found solace in art. 
• He established the first art school in history
• this is where he found Michaelangelo. 
• Lorenzo brought Michaelangelo into his family. He grew up alongside Lorenzo's seven children. 

• Michaeelangelo was born in 1475 and died in 1564. Michaelangelo came from sort of a merchant class family. he had fallen in love with stone carving and watched the men carving out the marble from the rocks in the quarries.