Classic Tides: Life in Renaissance Florence
Tides of History
Audible / Patrick Wyman
4.7 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
We're revisiting an episode of Tides of History we originally released in January 2018. Pay close attention, we're going to be spending a LOT of time in Italy this summer.
What was it like to have a front-row seat to the explosion of learning, art, and culture in Renaissance Florence? In this episode, we follow two people as they lived in the linked worlds of business and humanistic learning in the fifteenth century. These early knowledge workers combined a genuine interest in the wisdom of the classical past with a practical desire for the skills that would help them rise up the economic and social ladder.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Tides of History, add free on Amazon Music. |
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| 0:16.2 | Hi everybody, welcome to a classic episode of Tides of History. |
| 0:21.2 | This is a re-release of an episode we originally put out all the way back in January of 2018. |
| 0:26.9 | That means we recorded it way back in December of 2017 that feels like forever ago over the lifespan of this show. |
| 0:34.2 | So for the next couple of months we're going to be moving to Italy. |
| 0:38.4 | We're going to be spending a lot of time in Renaissance Italy. |
| 0:41.0 | We're going to talk about the politics of the Italian peninsula coming up in next week's episode. |
| 0:45.2 | We're going to be talking about the famous mercenaries of Italy, the Kundaltiere in the episode after that. |
| 0:50.4 | And then we're going to spend a whole month on the Italian wars, the great geopolitical conflict of the early 16th century, |
| 0:57.2 | which took place as the name suggests, mostly in Italy. |
| 1:01.0 | So with that in mind, I wanted to come back and give you guys a slice of life. |
| 1:06.3 | We're going to be talking about life in Renaissance Florence here in this episode today. |
| 1:10.2 | I want you to understand what it's like to live in one of these cities to be surrounded by the hustle and bustle, |
| 1:16.1 | to understand how the unique economic and social environment influenced the rise of what we consider the Renaissance. |
| 1:24.2 | So something like humanism, how that was a useful set of skills for a person to acquire in this time and place, |
| 1:31.3 | how that grew out of the context, how it was connected to it, and mostly just what it felt like to be there. |
| 1:36.4 | Because we're going to do a lot of kind of top down stuff in the episode on the politics of the Renaissance. |
| 1:41.2 | We're going to be talking about wars specifically, but what was it like to live in one of these cities? |
| 1:45.6 | I hope that this episode will give you a little sense of what that was like. |
| 1:49.2 | The distant ringing of bells marked the summer evening's late sunset. |
| 1:53.6 | It was warm and pleasant with a thin breeze cutting through the fading heat of the day. |
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