Ep. 62 - The Monster of Florence
The Conspirators Podcast
The Conspirators Podcast
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:27.2 | buy now at Samsung.com. The city of Florence was founded by none other than Julius Caesar back in AD 59. As a place where old soldiers could retire comfortably from war. |
| 0:47.9 | It was originally called Florentia, which means flourishing. There's an early legend about the city involving an |
| 0:54.5 | Armenian prince named Minnie Otto who settled down to living life as a hermit in a |
| 0:59.5 | cave outside the city proper. Occasionally he would wander back into the public square and preach to the local pagans. |
| 1:07.0 | But when the Emperor Desius began persecuting Christians, He had Minnio arrested and subsequently beheaded. |
| 1:17.0 | According to the legend, Minnio took his own beheading with a surprising level of dignity. |
| 1:22.0 | Which is to say, according to the stories, he actually picked up his severed head, placed it back on his shoulders, then strolled out of town in order to die back in the cave he called home. |
| 1:36.7 | Today one of the most beautiful churches in all of Italy, the San Midiato El Monte stands near that cave. By the 14th century Florence had grown rich in the trades of woolen cloth and banking |
| 1:47.0 | and during that time it actually became one of the five largest cities in all of Europe. |
| 1:54.6 | The Italian Renaissance began in Florence, art, music, mathematics, science, architecture, and |
| 2:01.0 | astronomy. All saw a major surge forward during this period. |
| 2:07.1 | The modern banking system and in particular the idea of credit was created in Florence. |
| 2:13.0 | Amerigo Vespucci, the renowned explorer and mapmaker, who gave America its name was born there. |
| 2:21.0 | One could argue that the modern world was truly born out of Florence as people began to shrug off superstition and looked to science and mathematics for answers to life's imponderable questions. |
| 2:34.2 | Of all the wealthy families that came out of this prosperous time in the city, |
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