Activity 4

Video Visit: What does Florence today tell us about the Renaissance?

Your Task

Watch the video below. Then answer the questions on screen or in this Word Doc to save your answers.

Map of Florence

Find the following places that Tim visited in the video on your Google street guide:

Cathedral di Santa Maria del Fiore
Duomo
Piazza de República
Piazza della Signoria
Via de Corso
Ospidale degli Innocenti
Pont de Vecchio.
Piazza del Signoria

1 Who were the Medici?

2 Describe what happened to Antonio Rinaldeschi? What does this tell you about life in Florence during the Renaissance?

Law and order
Religion
Superstition
The class system – the popolo grasso and popolo minuto.

4 This was not a terribly significant event in Italian history and yet it became the theme for a painting? Why do you think this painting was made? What are the messages or themes in the painting?

5 Florence was described as a republic – a form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives of the citizen body. Was Florence a republic in the true sense of the word?

Crossword Puzzle

Try to summarise what you have learned from the video by completing this crossword.

Global History Mysteries presents

The Renaissance – Did it Herald a Better Life for All?

Activity 4

Video Visit: What does Florence today tell us about the Renaissance?

Your Task

Map of Florence

Crossword Puzzle

Congratulations!