How the Medici Shaped the Renaissance | The Last Florentine Republic (Lecture 10)

Lecture 10: The city of Rome was sacked on May 6, 1527. The Medici were persuaded to leave Florence, and on May 16, a new balìa, or emergency government, decreed that the Great Council—the backbone of Florence’s republican tradition—would be called to order. This lesson focuses on events following that.

Following the expulsion of the Medici from Florence in the wake of the sack of Rome, study the divisions that plagued the final Florentine Republic. Witness the political alliances that led to the siege of Florence by the Holy Roman Emperor, the events ending in the return of the Medici to the city, and the rewriting of the Florentine constitution, naming the Medici as hereditary rulers.

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