The Medici: The Renaissance's Most Powerful Family - See U in History

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[@ColeMcIsaac]

Again, thank you so much! You’re the best.

[@mattclements1348]

Can we get More on this , like a Borgia video, somthin on machavelli?

[@gomichow]

All those years of playing Assassin's Creed have finally paid off

[@EJK2099]

Same

[@Manuel-gu9ls]

Totally

[@stelladonaconfredobutler9459]

sad

[@alessandrom7181]

Knowing stuff about Renaissance with a game..My God.

[@rathertiredofthemess2841]

How sad. But I guess you got there.

[@masteroftheassassins]

I’d like to thank Assassin’s Creed II for first introducing me to the Medici family.

[@Manuel-gu9ls]

Yes it’s were the majority of Ezio’s Trilogy began and up to the Ottoman era

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Are you the master they speak of in all the legends?

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Assassin's Creed Ezio's trilogy is the best history teacher 🤣

[@masteroftheassassins]

@@cloverassassinscreed I’m glad to have found another brother in our midst

[@loreCarbonell]

Anglos people learning "history'' from videogames and not from school/books ... Weird

[@andremororo-fisher3096]

Kanye last rant brought me here 😂

[@marvelgeek9577]

Medici's: *Leads Florence for decades filled with prosperity* Savonarola: "Allow me to introduce myself."

[@anavukic61]

👍

[@nicoledemedici5]

😂 yes please ! The bonfire of vanities !

[@josevelarde83]

I am absolutely obsessed with The Medici family.

[@Gio_Medici]

i'm a Medici!

[@josephtraficanti689]

I know what you mean. The name in some ways serves as a "handle" to get a grip on an important as well as interesting era. We were at earlier times a cluster of little family groups. Eventually we were able to become less isolated and as we found regions that could both feed and defend a larger population we transitioned. We eventually grew into nation states but before that we were city states that started to carry on trade over the area of continents. The Medici facilitated a change in religion that allowed the banking and lending rules to be modified. It allowed interest on loans to account for risk. Trade is not always able to be complete successfully. Caravans carrying goods can bee attacked. Ships at sea can be sunk in storms or hit rocks near shore. Then there are pirates too. The inventions also created coffee houses where coffee stimulated investors to intelligently make investments and that is why stock markets developed. A share caused math to be used to compute how the share on capital invested yielded a share of the profits, if any. The bankers in Florence teamed with the traders in Venice. I believe Marco Polo came from Venice. In short we can see a conglomeration of religion, banking, trade over land and by sea, geography, navigation, etc come together in the rebirth of classical knowledge going back to Augustus Caesar and the creation of the PRINCIPATE. THE FIRST PHASE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

[@josephtraficanti689]

BTW. Greetings brother. I am a relation to the Pucci who were allies of the Medici. There is the story of how the Florence history goes back to Gaius Julius Caesar. The transitions from political structures from and to Republic government to aristocracy to dictatorship. The Pucci hailed back to the Saracini who were rooted in the Julii and Claudii equestrian families of Roman, the Empire, and eventually to the transition of Greek Hellenism to Christianity. I have taken time off from work during the pandemic and made some research from the time of the Roman Senate, to the Roman Empire, and on to the middle ages that gave birth to the Renaissance. Eventually that branched to the Enlightenment, the British Empire. Finally the American Revolution leads to the creation of our own Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. Whew! It was a trip!.

[@jonjonboi3701]

Yes the Medici family are truly magnificent. I also love the Netflix show called Medici

[@mik63m]

Me too.

[@josephtraficanti689]

Many thanks for your description of the Medici history. In 1962 our family received a letter from the Vatican. My maternal grandmother was Pucci. Antonio Maria Pucci was from a family with 23 Priors and 3 Cardinals. Antonio was canonized December 9, 1962. Eventually I became interested in doing some research into that portion of or family history. We found that the Pucci were allies of the Medici during the transition from republic to dukedom and grand dukedom. Some of the history pertained to the Lateran Councils circa 1200. Other facets described the possibility of familial relations when the Pucci may have been Saracini in name. It was said that this lead to connections by marriage to the families Julii and Claudii. What did that mean? At first I may have found Julian the Apostate was Caesar about 342 AD. Going further back Wikipedia mentions some basis of the connection maybe going to Gaius Julius Caesar and adopted grand nephew Octavius. Aka: Caesar Augustus. It became an interest to think of how Antonio became a saint and the connections to those earlier ancestors with glory and fame on one hand, as well as a huge amount of administered death. It really gives you a perspective on history. Thank you for the research you bring to us.

[@wednesdayschild3627]

I alm researching a family connection to the Strozzi family. They were banking rivals to the Medici.

[@jamesmichaelcabrera9613]

Crazy

[@Kakashi1isjskks]

Both of those bloodlines died out in the early 100s AD.

[@chadsmith2281]

​@@Kakashi1isjskkswhat bloodlines are in charge now?

[@vatoclan3080]

Here because Kanye told me these guys run the world

[@The_Sword11]

Facts lol

[@thenablade858]

Not anymore. They’re all (mostly) gone. The last lineal descendant was Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici and she died in 1743 without children. At least the work they funded survived.

[@Jesse-te6wz]

@@thenablade858. And now they’re the orsini now

[@Woodskill23]

​@@Jesse-te6wzhow ?

[@jin8982]

That's what they want you to think ​@@thenablade858

[@Nana-vi4rd]

That modern guy does looks a lot like his Ancestor. That is awesome.

[@Schwarzkald]

Dude you left out Cosimo's wife who bought the palazzo vecchio Eleonora de Toledo from Spain whom was richer and more prominent than Cosimo. Plus she brought him money and Army.

[@RaluMariaRa]

Contessina and her daughter in law were some of the best women ❤️

[@ayabouchareb6791]

Yesss, the show really highlights the role of these two women

[@voltfields3900]

The family have revels too. Two of them disassociated themselves and there was one who even became a hermit later canonized as a Saint.

[@dsaujddajindiafnifrnigwue]

I learned recently I am a distant descendant of the Medici family, Pietro de' Medici is my 13th great grandfather, he had several illegitimate children who would be born in France and embrace French culture, and would eventually immigrate to Quebec, Canada.

[@zh2266]

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus is my great uncle twice removed

[@ktlau-ph3bi]

That guy is an absolute carbon copy if not Lorenzo the magnificent himself lol

[@iulia1690]

This is the coment i've been looking for

[@radec5166]

As Italian I have always wondered if they were the ones who unified Italy, thus becoming the royal family of a united Italy in 1400. No Bourbons or Savoy.

[@IYKYK29Q]

If you came because of kanyes interview i am too🤣

[@WagVloggsTv]

🤣🤣💯I did

[@needtoknow4604]

38 years old and just now hearing about these people

[@ray101892]

Assassins creed brought me here 😊. The borgias were a far more interesting bunch but i will never forget the medicis for making me wear their pepperoni pizza looking symbol in the game lol.

[@Archivist1492]

I am a descendant to both families Medici, Borgias and also the Sonderinis too.

[@yourmomshouse6984]

​@@Archivist1492 sure you are pal

[@garrypierre2679]

The family still in Power

[@johnf.tashjian6326]

It is so sad when a family like this weakens over time. At least, their legacy remains.

[@AuthorLHollingsworth]

I agree. Sad!

[@devonhaddad8665]

Why is it sad?

[@eyenamaste1910]

😂you fools these people are still in power !!do some conspiracy research on it😉

[@leviborbely9727]

They still rule the world today

[@Bigpapaidadwag]

@zVinceTheSniperthose 13 bloodlines you know don’t actually rule the world they are the scapegoats

[@bananalemon9145]

Great content, concise history of the Medici family. The city of Folrence still remains as a city 9f the birth of THe Renaissance.

[@lolz9449]

2:02 I never thought I’d see Robb Stark as one of the Medici

[@xoxosm255]

He actually plays the role of a pacci not a medici

[@lisalasoya2898]

When I first read these series of Medici I felt cultivated, (bas relief) the Spanish rule couldn't handle the Italians, Penelope the mother of Raphael kept wearing a white veil and it felt like she swung with different men to distract people. It wasn't until the priest who underneath, kept pressing his colleagues to do away with some of this pressure, which they did.

[@historydawn9982]

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[@lennylaffargue4413]

Great content thank you! Maybe a topic on the Grimaldi family in liguria, and nowadays Monaco, could be interesting

[@charliemcternan8190]

This looks so amazing This is awesome I love it

[@Manuel-gu9ls]

The Medici family, most influential and respected families in all human history

[@franbatista9062]

Not as influential as the Rothschild

[@dianeruiz0721]

That’s your opinion not fact.

[@calundoconteal6851]

@@dianeruiz0721 It can be disputed

[@siddarth3955]

There are many in the east as well living descendants of royal families who are still respected to this day. In the west itself the royal family of UK easily has more respect and influence.

[@goated3285]

@@siddarth3955 no respect

[@spoorthi_k]

whos here from the netflix show medici mastres of Florence

[@troy517]

Finally i found someone who watched it

[@spoorthi_k]

@@troy517 yessz absolutely love the show

[@ardenalexa94]

From that show and reign. Since reign has Catherine de Medici.

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Kanye West brought me here!

[@BushBumperBaker]

Video starts at 1:57

[@hakunamatata9624]

Watch the series. Medici: masters of Florence...

[@muhddanish8311]

2:13 the guy in red was so angry his eye split to another direction

[@betsygray9505]

So interesting! Was supposed to learn about the Renaissance as part of my degree...but was more interested in other things at that stage 😂. The whole world of Florence and the Medici ...was...well, pretty alien to me, as a working class girl. ( I had never even travelled abroad! ) Really I was more into 20th century history. Ahh we make mistakes like that when we are young.😢 Great summary...have learned more about this family and the Renaissance in recent years than I ever did from my degree!😜

[@hmutandadzi]

Interesting how many great European families just ran out of male heirs.

[@thenablade858]

@Asa Felix No. Fertility issues were incredibly common back then + infant mortality was very high. Nobody lasts forever. There are still Medici descendants though.

[@uknowwho80]

Wow ! They do look very similar!!

[@thattimestampguy]

0:03 The Renaissance 0:20 The Borgia Family 0:28 The Medici Family of Florence 0:38 _Square Space_ 2:00 The Medici held a Bank 🏦 Fortune 💰💰💰💰

[@Kerorofan1990]

He's either a clone or a time traveler...

[@tempomatic64]

Families who built their wealth through trade, as opposed to inherited landholdings like the medieval nobility, quickly came to dominate many city-states. This was particularly notable in Florence, where the support of banking families such as the Medici played a crucial role in establishing the city as the birthplace of the Renaissance.

[@playea123]

The pronunciation in this video is wild. Great content though!!

[@johnnydang3376]

Kanye sent me.

[@inthewaytv1]

Facts lol

[@kaloyanstefanov2388]

Oh boy I've read a lot and watched the series unfortunately after I visited Florence earlier this year. When you see in person the art, the buildings and everything else lasting centuries later is mind numbing experience. Those people have build a legacy for the ages ahead and immortalised their family name. They simply make the contemporary oligarchs and billionaires with their yachts look puny. Cosimo had consolidated such incomprehensible power yet he used it softly, with every monarch and the church owing him he managed to remain in the history as humanitarian and not despot. What a legend....the true ruler of Florence with no titles.

[@andrzejszpak688]

The medici family had real taste. Unlike the billionaires of today who patronize frauds like damian hirst and jeff koons. They all have the same houses and the same cars. No one will remember them when they’re gone.

[@Argos-xb8ek]

Thanks to davinci's Demons I got a good idea of them.

[@exmoney-xi7gw]

Love the fact you mentioned they were “cultured” before everything else. Their leaders need to coach them before they can single handedly instill the same thought process to the rest of the world to make what we call today modern world.

[@tinaeitel5792]

SO INTERESTING. THANK YOU

[@Ash_Mrz1223]

Can anyone tell me the name of the background music

[@TheFoolAltAccount]

And to think that one of them became a Sequence 1 Conqueror of the Hunter Pathway

[@tommysantana640]

Kanye got me here

[@space_cakes]

Medici sound like a airfryer model

[@blutterfishful]

I love your channel. But this one has no English subtitles.

[@ZeusSharpie]

How exact is family tree of medicci in da vincis demons?

[@emmittsmith6764]

what's the song in the background called?

[@abhinnsahoo3327]

I am only here because of Assassin's Creed II only.

[@loreCarbonell]

I'm sorry for your ignorance and for the school system of your country

[@yatithebeast]

While Lorenzo (The Magnificent) had a son named Giuliano (di Lorenzo de’ Medici) he was never a cardinal nor having any position in the church. He became the Duke of Nemours. It was Giulio who became a cardinal and later became Pope Clement VII. Giulio was the illegitimate son of Lorenzo’s brother, Giuliano. So there were only two Medicis that were in the church, not 3 like the video suggests.

[@ivywong7337]

Love 💕 me some renaissance molto bellisima🇭🇺🇯🇲

[@jorgegomez524]

I believe he lives in Portugal now, at Comporta

[@whoiskcwhat]

Did they blur Adam's private parts at 0:13. When do they get a Renaissance in The States????? This is Really shocking.

[@bigbigbans]

i think its because of youtube guidelines smh

[@jamellfoster6029]

The Lorenzo De Medici of today is a Clone of his illustrious ancestor... Wow...

[@loveegiorno8106]

Not really a Prince though. There was never a Medici King. It was a TV show that called him a prince, not accurate.

[@Alkis05]

@@loveegiorno8106 through out history, prince was not always defined as the son of a king. The word prince means something like "first to take the spoils", the one owed the lion's share. In the context the Italian renascence, it meant simply "a sovereign ruler", be it a duke, king, an arch-bishop with a secular domain or the head of a city-state. So, depending on which Lorenzo de Médici you are talking about, eg. Lorenzo "the Magnificent" Médici, it is not wrong to call him a prince.

[@karolineduffy4890]

how can I contact you I have a question

[@veronicastevens1614]

You pronounced Borgias wrong but I get what you were trying to say.

[@findingthatperfectspot4692]

That wasn't the only name he mispronounced... He also put the stress wrong in 'Medici' and 'Cosimo' and mispronounced 'Brunelleschi' and 'Gentileschi'.

[@veronicastevens1614]

@@findingthatperfectspot4692 this isn’t a bot is it?

[@findingthatperfectspot4692]

@@veronicastevens1614 I'm honestly not sure! The commentary sounds very robot-like at times, then quite human at other times. I think the narrator is human, but I wouldn't wager a house on it. :-)

[@andrealuisecandido1154]

The nobel Family DE Medici ITaLy were The founder of The Money Bank SysTem which we know Today

[@TickerwithAryan]

What is the name of background music???

[@beautifulbutterfly8130]

I’m here because of Kanye.Sometimes you got to educate yourself 🔐

[@containedhurricane]

"Prince" Lorenzo de Medici

[@gastonneal724]

The Moor Duke, his story sounds a little like Othello.

[@r.b8888bsrk]

Amazing

[@tutaman2910]

Kanye West brought me here

[@CamFlexbeats]

2024 he just brought me here

[@ffirstcomment]

how does this have no comments but u have a million subs

[@Caesar087]

Algorithm?

[@nikhil3538]

Interesting 😍

[@michaelmc3539]

5:22 Medici so rich, they owned the first smartphone

[@caiosipriano3173]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@lordbolton1822]

Davinci's Demons brought me here !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@adistyacnugroho7583]

Same with me to!

[@soggythreedollarbill8024]

4:30 Cosimo transformed Florence into the capital of the Renaissance

[@DTAP17]

This family runs the world

[@maryannsmith9093]

Yep..above the Vatican

[@danthomasd]

no , the orsini family does, this family isnt around anymore

[@val7553]

How can there be no mention of poison?

[@Mikeywhatitdo]

its in their interest for the masses to think they're not around

[@cheeserocks2214]

Thank you Assassins Creed for bringing me here. Who said videogames aren't educational?

[@ZepTepi1997]

Its pronounced "borj-wah-zie"

[@saadabbas8976]

The Byzantine Influence on the Italian Renaissance Ionut Alexandru Plescau University of Bucharest Romania

[@YadayahBatonRouge]

The Byzantine empire were blacks

[@kingJulien116]

Hey I don't need your history lesson ... I saved medici from getting killed as Ezio

[@pynkhrawmarwein3109]

I came here after Kanye mentioned them.

[@willardsteele4857]

Hyperbole to say they were the Renaissance’s most powerful family. The Fuggers, Trastameras, Valois and Hapsburgs all come to mind first.

[@chiomawoherem4625]

There's no valois without Catherine de medici

[@thenablade858]

They were definitely the wealthiest + most influential in Italy. The Renaissance began in Italy after all.

[@the1427]

I’d like to thank Mr. Burns for educating me on Shouts out to the Simpsons mannnn.

[@jayvibe4714]

Who’s here because of Kanye???

[@michaeljohnangel6359]

If you're going to teach stuff, please learn how to pronounce the names. Cosimo de' Medici is pronounced COZ-eem-oh day MED-ee-chee, and Borgia is pronounced BOR-jah, to name just two.

[@Celtic_Blade]

THANK YOU!

[@grantbarnes3678]

Appreciated. Might benefit from more appropriate music

[@scrambletje]

Kanye west Brought me. Here

[@tonyperez7467]

So are these images of the charecters real? Could I imagine them really looking like this

[@cloverassassinscreed]

Haha I saw the name and I was like don't mention it. Then read it again and was like... Awww

[@Tech_Traveller1]

Who is here after watching 'Medici' series on netflix

[@hudsonr5985]

this family is still at the top like literally of everything lol.

[@renehopkinson5079]

Kanye exposed them by saying they are still above the Vatican today.

[@irfanuddin2498]

Am I the only who knows when cuz of Kanye's tantrum on sway's channel

[@heather-vs9qe]

This is deep man, black in the medic family very political.. Lord 🙏 save us..

[@-Rise]

bro this family is one of the most powerful families in the world rn

[@thenablade858]

No. The last lineal descendant died hundreds of years ago + they are not that rich or powerful anymore. The Murdoch family is MUCH more powerful nowadays. This ain’t the Renaissance anymore.

[@morrismurimi3965]

First My favorite time of art the Renaissance

[@StevenMedici]

I would love to get to know everything about my family

[@lynnmckinney4827]

It funny that Borgia and medici families overlap in power

[@loveegiorno8106]

Enemies

[@BoulevardClues]

I grew up here.

[@Leonardo-bd3ik]

7:27 "the unofficial Medici ****" what is this word, how do you spell it?

[@Silastobias1]

Oh yeah....and it's not Co See" Mo... It is Coh' see me.....and Giovanni is not four syllables.....it's three Joe Vah' Nee. I'm Italian.

[@DIVAUNBOTHERED]

🙄

[@cnotedrop]

Gonna guess when Kanye mentioned them either he didn’t mean this family specifically but ones like them or he was just being crazy again

[@yaeldolev1465]

Name of music in background?

[@cheeseplate7844]

"From Russia with Love"

[@misslangleysoryuisiconic]

**nervously laughs in elbow blades**