Cesare Borgia

are given in which one of them is Oliverotto of Fermo became military commander and planned to kill his uncle which was king at gathering. This led into him terrorizing the city with obedience until he was removed from the throne and murdered by Cesare Borgia. The second example was Agathocles, he was evil and in order to gain power he ordered all the senates and citizen leaders to gather and he murdered all of them. He was made a prince but it didn’t make him a great king. They have gained…

Leonardo da Vinci, a painter, inventor, and scientist. This ideal Renaissance man played a key role in the Italian Renaissance. He made, with his inventions of warfare, to his paintings of the Italian culture. People still wonder how his brilliant mind shaped today society. Leonardo da Vinci was born in the small town of Vinci, in 1452. He was born to a lawyer and a servant, Even though his father had many wives, Leonardo was still the only child. By the time he was fourteen, Leo became an…

 What led up to the Renaissance?  Fall of Rome & the regression back into Feudalism  The Crusades  The Bubonic Plague  Great geological/trade location  Establishing the city-states  New ideas were mostly inspired by the Romans and the Greeks, who were considered trailblazers Economic and Political Developments/Commercial Developments  Florence was the heart of the Art Renaissance  Northern city-states like Venice, Milan, and Genoa grew wealthy because they had access to the seas…

Background Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli or Niccolò Machiavelli was born in Florence, Italy 3rd May 1469 during Renaissance. He was known as Italian or Florentine historian, politician, diplomat, and philosopher. In 1494, there’s one well-known political family in Italy called Medici family—already ruled Florence for 40 years, which removed temporarily from power. Thus, Florence was under control by Girolamo Savonarola a Dominican monk who obsessed to transform Florence into a “Christian…

through the whole book is Cesare Borgia. Seems like Borgia had all the qualities that Machiavelli praises. He had the ability to be self-sufficient and to be ruthless when necessary. He was not indecisive and did not rely on luck. “There was one man who showed glimpses of greatness, the kind of thing that made you think he was sent by God for the country's redemption” writes Machiavelli with unhidden regard. To my mind, the reason why Machiavelli was so delighted with Borgia was that he…

Leonardo da Vinci was born April 15, 1452 in a farmhouse just outside the village of Anchiano in present day Italy. He and his father's family moved to Florence when he was 12. At 14 he started his artist’s apprenticeship in the studio of Andrea del Verrocchio. Here he learned a wide amount of technical skills involving metalworking, leather arts, carpentry, drawing, painting and sculpting. This is where he really started to appreciate science. Leonardo had little formal education (Basic…

Legendary Beard Fact: Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the few artists never to leave behind a self portrait, but in every image executed by other, his magnificent flowing beard takes center stage. Leonardo Da Vinci was the bastard son of wealthy and well-respected lawyer Messer Piero Fruosinio de Antonio da Vinci and a peasant woman named Caterina. The birth took place on April 14, 1542 inn the hill town of Vinci in the Republic of Florence. He received virtually no formal education, until he was…

when he had his first apprenticeship working Andrea del Verrocchio. Leonardo grew up in a village near Florence, Italy. Most of his life was spent in a small town, coincidentally named Vinci. In 1502 and 1503 Leonardo was a military engineer for Cesare Borgia in Florence where he was able to do weapons work along with maps. He designed new weapons and maps for the military. Many say that this inspired his very precise and sharp works. Leonardo was very…

The Renaissance was a period of revolutionary change, therefore literature, art, and architecture all flourished. When the medieval era shifted into early modernity, this new era adopted new political and social reforms, and these new ideals ran through Renaissance writings. There are notable examples that affected this transition to modernity such as Baldassare Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier and Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince. These pieces of revolutionary writings are prominently…

The Renaissance was a period in which politics was in shambles. The Pope had military control, and even went to war with other Italian cities. Cities were divided with one another, fighting for power over one another. Other countries like France and Spain were not helping either, also engaging in wars for power and control over the cities. Basically, people were often fighting, invading, overthrowing their governments, things were in chaos. No government was as stable or powerful as the other,…