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Cosimo would create the most powerful banking family in Florence
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Brunelleschi and Donatello travel to Rome to study ancient Ruins. The study of classic works would become important in renaissance culture.
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The Pazzi family attempts to overthow the Medici and put themselves in power. This results in the death of Guliano de Medici. Lorenzo escapes injured.
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The Borgia were a prominent family from Spain who desired power in Italy. They were enemies of the Sforza and Medici
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Savonarola was revered as a prophet by his followers. He became a leader in the city after the Medici were temporarily driven out. He created a widely popular regime which encouraged the destruction of "indecent" art and literature. He would later be executed by a crowd.
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Cesare uses his father's position as pope to give himself control over the Papal armies
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finished in 1517
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Machiavelli believed in the necessity of brutality and tactics to secure power
