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Fall 2024

Week 1: Manuel Chrysoloras Comes to Florence (Greek)

Week 2: Ptolemy Comes to Florence (Geography)

Week 3: Vitruvius Comes to Florence (Architecture)

Week 4: Why Florence? (The Confluence)

Week 5: Money, Banks, and the Florin

Week 6: The Families of Florence - Medici and Strozzi

Week 7: The Catasto & The Emergence of the Modern State

Week 8: Florence and the Papacy

Week 9: Every Day Life in Renaissance Florence

Week 10: The Renaissance at Midcentury - Piero della Francesca

Winter 2025

Week 11: The Renaissance Moves to Rome — The Borgias

Week 12: Rome - The Medici