Florence

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In this essay, the writer discusses that after the lifetime of truncated religious and political dogmas fostered throughout the Middle Ages, the Early Renaissance proved to be a time of symbiotic influence between religion and politics in Florence. The writer examines the struggle between church and state in Renaissance Florence. The writer mentions the artistic awakening that pervades popular Renaissance history and depicts a world where man is the universal center of all things, provider of harmony between natural beauty and the created world. The writer concludes that in Renaissance Florence, the church and state were an integral part of life and each other. Because their unity reaffirmed the supremacy of the upper class and allowed little room for the new citizens who had modernized Early Renaissance Florence into the height of culture and thought a hundred years later, the middle class was excised from the political sphere of Florence.

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"The artistic awakening that pervades popular Renaissance history depicts a world where man is the universal center of all things, provider of harmony between natural beauty and the created world. For the men of Florence, this sentiment was particularly true, while its application may not have been. For Datini, the struggle was clear; the detailed letters he exchanged with his wife shed light upon the dynamic hierarchy of Italy. In Prato, their exalted place in the local social structure was small-scale and easily attainable. An early mercantile magnate, Datini was able to transfer much of his industrial success to Florence, but there his social status was unmatched, instead, families like the Medicis continued their long-term rule of the city."

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