How the Medici Shaped the Renaissance | The First Collapse of the Medici Regime (Lecture 7)

Lecture 7: In early 1492, Lorenzo de’ Medici’s health failed. When Lorenzo realized that death was upon him, he asked to be carried to his family’s villa at Careggi. Lorenzo spent his final days in a period of prayerfulness and penitential remorse. He departed this life for the next in April 1492. Lorenzo had already safely bequeathed power to his son Piero, who would carry on the Medici family’s role in Florence.

Examine the extraordinary circumstances of Lorenzo de’ Medici’s decline and death, highlighting the role of the politically influential friar, Girolamo Savonarola. Follow the highly charged events surrounding Piero de’ Medici’s assumption of power, and the outbreak of bloody war which ultimately forced Piero and his brothers to flee into exile, ending 60 years of Medici power in Florence.

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