The Renaissance (in Italian "Rinascimento") started in the region Tuscany during 1500s.
But it started precisely in the city of Florence.
Why?
1) recovery after an economic and social crisis.
2) bankruptcy.
3) plague.
4) famine.
5) civil wars.
6) Milan threats Florence.
7) Gian Galeazzo Visconti wants to create a national state governed by Milan.
8) Florence wanted more indipendence.
Also Florence was a city anti-aristocratics, with a secondary role of the Pope and the Church. Florence had a corporative system, and big families of bankers and merchants (like Medici).
Consier also that a lot of "Signori", especially in Florence used to pay painters, sculptors and writers.
Florence is also called "The city of art". Florence always had great artists...
This idea was reflected in the work of
John Locke who was an English philosopher.
John Lock who was born in 1632 is arguably one of the most
influential thinkers of the seventeenth century, he is also known as the <span>"Father
of Liberalism". He was an advocate of the free and equal rights for people
as opposed to the popular idea of the time that people are subject to a king or
monarch.</span>
Wildly enough, may look back at the Cold War with fondness as it represented a time when the US knew who its enemies were. This is contrast to the state of warfare today where the US is fighting terrorist groups around the world.
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