Spaţii publice florentine prerenascentiste
Florentine Public Space in the Late Middle Ages / Spaţii publice florentine prerenascentiste

Summary/Abstract: Beginning with the 13th century, the city of Florence, due to its economic and political potential, reinvented itself through experimentation and innovation, thus speeding the modernization of Italy and later the hole of the European continent, through a process that we now call Renaissance. But Renaissance in itself would not have emerged if it were not for some right conditions that permitted the Florentine society to embrace these new ideas. The outstanding cultural revolution took place on the backdrop of a late middle ages city, built largely in the 13th and 15th centuries. One might say that the entire 15th century is in a way tributary to this transitional period, for most of the important figures of the Florentine Renaissance acted in a large set that had already been built. Thus Florence proved to be a giant construction site not only for great buildings and architecture, but also of great ideas and concepts regarding the ‘new man’ and his role into a more modern society.

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