The Curse of the Mad Monk: Savonarola | The Medici (Part 3)

This is part 3 in our series about the Medici, the next and final episode is available here: https://youtu.be/lNMR4ygcr38

Did Lorenzo de’Medici’s rule in Florence incur prosperity, or was it a corrupt and autocratic regime, rife with torture, that would spell the doom of the former Republic? While building an edifice of power, wealth and luxury, how was he secretly bankrupting his famous family and city? Was he really the perfect Renaissance Prince, and how did he launch the careers of both Michaelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci? And, with poverty and riots on the streets of Florence, who was Girolamo Savonarola, the Dominican priest bent on destroying Lorenzo and his family, while predicting the apocalyptic end of the world…?

00:00 Lorenzo in Naples
08:28 Florence: end of the republic
11:12 The dark side of Lorenzo’s Florence
21:15 The greatest medici patron
29:38 The decline of Florence
30:41 The rise of Savonarola

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