18. The Medici, Savonarola, and Renaissance Florence 

Your diction, your knowledge, your delivery -- all of that and more ... nothing short of excellence! Thank you for posting this most interesting and educative video!

I love the way the speaker uses his lively hands during his lecture. This is very Italian for him to do so -- and appropriately so at that! After-all, this is a serious discussion on Italian Florence ... (smiling). Of course, my comment is made with respectful affection and admiration for this marvellous lecturer ... loved it!

We hear so little of Savonarola. Such great information!

Powerful man of God teaching these history lessons!!!!

Yea the mighty 2 edged sword of the gospel, to cut a swathe through falsehood and unbelief.

This is incredibly thorough and knowledgable! I have used your video as a revision source and have found it incredibly helpful. Thank you very much for publishing.

15th century Italy,better defined as autonomous regions,mini states feudalistic often at war with one and other but also mercantile ,sharing ideas in and of art including as you say it ,humanism. really enjoyed that thank you.

Fantasic! Thank You so much!

Great video. Stayed inside the Ponte Vecchio a few days ago. Love Florence very much.

Very good I enjoyed that

today's sacred music vs renaissance secular music When we compare that ,we can easily see where we are today , we are at lowest point in history in intellect , emotions , body and spirit . That's just one example , there are many others :)

Savonarola made two bad decisions: 1) doing whatever lead to him being burned at the stake. 2) choosing the profile format instead of portrait when being painted.

Brilliant as always!

This guy's great

Wasn’t it Botticelli who grew up with the Medici and Michelangelo joined the academy later?

Is there any classic studies or biographies on Giovanni de Medici that you would recommend? His meteoric rise raises suspicions to my judgement!

Great lecture. High-information, lucidly presented. One criticism: Gore uses the term "monk" to identify Catholic clergy of any variety. E.g., he says that Savonarola was a "Dominican monk." There is no such animal. Dominicans are canons regular, a technical term that could confuse listeners. It would be enough to identify Savonarola as a priest who belonged to the religious order that is the Dominicans, the informal name of the Order of Preachers (Ordo Praedicatorum). That flyspeck aside, though, this lecture is excellent. Thank you.

@39:56 Savonarola? More like SAVAGErola.

Yes it's good, well done, helpful, thank You

"--judgement on YOU, judgment on your COW--" --Savanarola, probably

Giovanni di bicci was not born into poverty, his cousin Vieri was a banker in the vatican. where giovanni lerned this work

This was super interesting but the repeated mispronunciation of Savonarola grated a lot for me.

Lorenzo the Magnificent had 2 sons and his adopted nephew. You merely mentioned Piero as an after thought and not as Lorenzo's son and heir.

I would love to use these lectures for homeschooling! Do you have these on DVD I could pay you for use?

To Bruce Gore, I watched this a few months ago, but I had to watch it again today. I was watching the series on the Medici (I think it's from PBS) They, of course, painted Savonarola in quite a negative light, and I didn't remember all of what you said about him. I do have a question though, in that series they state that Savonarola refused to give Lorenzo the desired absolution. Do you know if this is true? I just wondered if that was said for dramatic effect of not. Thanks for all you do!

Where is that picture from in 10:14? I know Christ

He keeps saying the name Savonarola wrong, but apart from that very educational!

Macchiavelo didn't have such power AT ALL. Just a high ranking clerk

How do we know Mary was 16 years old?

Your information is truly well distilled and put over succinctly. However you should check with other sources your pronunciation of some terms, particularly Renaissance and Medici. I know you are American but I believe in the English language the pronunciation is pretty well settled

I was surprised by Machiavelli's involvement with Savonarola. The Papacy was making itself look silly. Pope Julius II is to come, giving source material the Erasmian farcical work, "Julius Exclusus".

So confusing with Pope John XXIII in the 1400s and Pope John XXIII in 1958

sorry i best watch the last one.hehe

Sa-vo-na-ro-la

Savonarola

Omg it's Savonarola not Savoranola

Pretty strange remark to say that a persistent belief in pagan goblins who controlled your fate is what made medieval people yearn for humanism. Sources?

missing some vital details, the unspoken rules of class, from the bottom up.

Banco=bench

Okay, I have just completed my listening to this entire historical lecture. The "history" part of the lecture I like... I like very much in fact . .. however, at the end, quoting a passage from Revelations as though it were a source of "historical truth" and "logic" and "fact" -- forget it, I'm not biting. The Bible, as with other so-called holy books, is too replete with immoralities, nonsense stories, innumerable contradictions, and wild claims, for me to ever take seriously. So I did not like the preaching at the very end. All that being said, I thought the speaker was utterly interesting and fascinating -- until his closing and highly subjective interpretation of that passage he read from the Book of Revelations. It flies in the face of my Agnosticism and Skepticism.