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Florence organizes a league that rebels against Pope Gregory XI
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Cloth workers in Florence revolt to reform the city's guild system.
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St. George 's Bank is founded in Genoa.
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The ruler of Florence introduces a income tax.
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Banker Cosimo de Medici gains control of Florence.
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Johannes Gutenberg develops a printing press with a movable type.
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Sandro Botticelli paints his Adoration of the Magi series.
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Lorenzo de Medici established peace between Naples and Florence.
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Essay written by Niccolo Machiavelli , to describe government in the way it actually worked.
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Baldassare Castiglione , publoished what was known as the most famous book in the renaissance. The setting of the book was the court at Urbino , which used real people to describe how gentlemen and gentlewomen should act in a polite society.
