The statue of David was not Donatello's, it was Michelangelo's. Michelangelo despised the Medici family and had turned his back on them. His former student, Giorgio Vasari, was working for Cosimo I, who he considered an autocratic monarch. In a fit of rage and frustration Michelangelo tried to destroy his last work, the “Pieta.” Michelangelo was also a sculptor and not a painter and hated the fact he was comissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel. He was very rebellious as far a completing the piece as requested and suffered greatly from back pains. There are also many other inconsistencies with this story. No mention of their tyranny. How they falsly accused Machiavelli threw him in jail, tortured him and sent him into solitary exile at his country retreat. Influencial, yes. Wealthy, yes, but not peaches and cream.
Donatello did create a statue of David, but the video showed the David created by Michelangelo rather than the David created by Donatello. Really poor research here!
This is excellent. It's great to see a video on this family that has not been ai generated. The amount of inaccuracies I've found on other videos in the last couple of months has been crazy, but this is great. Just uploaded the start of my own series on the Medici (not as good as yours, of course, but it will be a very long in-depth series). If you need anything from me, please let me know. I'd love to work with you someday on something!
I watched this one and the folgers guy vid. I really like it, keep it up. One thing that stuck out to me was you using "in today's money" , what if a historian finds this in 100 years, that means nothing, so many currencies use the $ sign. Just a pet peeve of mine, great video though, ill give you a compliment sandwhich cause i did enojoy your content (y)
Interesting about 'banking.' I had heard that there were few if any crenulations on the edges of the gold and silver coins of those times. So that the Medicis or at least some of them had these very sharp iron and steal knives that were used to shave off a bit of metal off of each coin that past through their hands. Now you know the 'why' of crenulations. Other bankers took to weighing their coins.
The Medici could have certainly engaged in this but practice itself is as old as coins themselves. Here is a comparison between a Roman Denarius that is whole and one that is clipped commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoxne_Hoard_coins_6a.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoxne_Hoard_coins_6b.jpg What could have possibly made Medici and, indeed, other intelligent financiers distinct is how professional their debasement methods were. For one, the coins could be “sweated” by putting them in a bag and shaken or polished with some frictional material. The residue could then be collected and the authorities would have no way of finding out if the coins were intentionally debased or not.
For some reason I don't have Italian Flag available on my emoji list. Anyways great video as always. This will be great source for building my world building.
How so..? They were creditors of many kings including france and england .. Thier agent was amergigo vespucci...so u could say they were creditors of the United States ..
Well, as major bankers, some of their money would have ultimately gone on to fund wars in Europe but I wouldn’t call them “most dangerous family on Earth.” Yes, they were a famous banking family but they weren’t the only ones existing at the time. Apart from Florence, there were also major bankers in the likes of Venice and Genoa. Personally, I believe the ones from Venice might have been the most cutthroat and dangerous. Later on, German cities like Lubeck, Augsburg, and Cologne also became major financial centers. In fact, what made the Medici so famous and may be among the reasons they lasted so long was their avoidance of conflict. They preferred to avoid dangers through political connections and a good reputation rather than hire mercenaries to confront a threat directly.
Stop calling these oligarchs peasants. They were never peasants. If they were we will never know, because it was for generations and generations before they became famous.
Maybe in backwards Europe under the Church, but every place Eastward, whether China, Persia, or Egypt empires had long since figured it out, much of which European colonialism destroyed!
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The statue of David was not Donatello's, it was Michelangelo's. Michelangelo despised the Medici family and had turned his back on them. His former student, Giorgio Vasari, was working for Cosimo I, who he considered an autocratic monarch. In a fit of rage and frustration Michelangelo tried to destroy his last work, the “Pieta.” Michelangelo was also a sculptor and not a painter and hated the fact he was comissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel. He was very rebellious as far a completing the piece as requested and suffered greatly from back pains. There are also many other inconsistencies with this story. No mention of their tyranny. How they falsly accused Machiavelli threw him in jail, tortured him and sent him into solitary exile at his country retreat. Influencial, yes. Wealthy, yes, but not peaches and cream.
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Donatello did create a statue of David, but the video showed the David created by Michelangelo rather than the David created by Donatello. Really poor research here!
Great summary untangling the mess of the Medici family tree! Things were getting Game of Thrones-y as the Medici's started marrying into nobility.🇮🇹
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This is excellent. It's great to see a video on this family that has not been ai generated. The amount of inaccuracies I've found on other videos in the last couple of months has been crazy, but this is great.
Just uploaded the start of my own series on the Medici (not as good as yours, of course, but it will be a very long in-depth series). If you need anything from me, please let me know.
I'd love to work with you someday on something!
I’m so glad you enjoyed the video, thanks!
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@Economic_History I will check out your videos also. 👍🏾👍🏾
Another superb video. Keep them coming up.
Very kind of you, thanks for watching!
The Rothschild family of their time
Wait..aren’t the Rothschild and Rockefellers descended from the Medici’s and Orsinis
Exactly what I thought early bankers
Thanks for the source list, it's great that you link the sources! Keep up the good work.
brilliant. worth a rewatch.
I watched this one and the folgers guy vid. I really like it, keep it up.
One thing that stuck out to me was you using "in today's money" , what if a historian finds this in 100 years, that means nothing, so many currencies use the $ sign.
Just a pet peeve of mine, great video though, ill give you a compliment sandwhich cause i did enojoy your content (y)
Don't have the Italian flag on PC, so hopefully this will do. Keep up the good content 🙂🟢⚪🔴
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Keep teaching me history as my teachers failed to do so and any recommendations for books about
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As an accountant, I thank the Medici family. Graco.
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Interesting about 'banking.' I had heard that there were few if any crenulations on the edges of the gold and silver coins of those times. So that the Medicis or at least some of them had these very sharp iron and steal knives that were used to shave off a bit of metal off of each coin that past through their hands. Now you know the 'why' of crenulations. Other bankers took to weighing their coins.
The Medici could have certainly engaged in this but practice itself is as old as coins themselves.
Here is a comparison between a Roman Denarius that is whole and one that is clipped
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoxne_Hoard_coins_6a.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoxne_Hoard_coins_6b.jpg
What could have possibly made Medici and, indeed, other intelligent financiers distinct is how professional their debasement methods were. For one, the coins could be “sweated” by putting them in a bag and shaken or polished with some frictional material. The residue could then be collected and the authorities would have no way of finding out if the coins were intentionally debased or not.
For some reason I don't have Italian Flag available on my emoji list. Anyways great video as always. This will be great source for building my world building.
Awesome, thanks!!
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Theres a luxury apartment complex in downtown la named after them my ex used to work there
The David statue depicted was by Michaelangelo not Donatello.
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🇮🇹 Android phone had flag, PC windows did not. Anyway nice video
I like Michelangelo despised the Medici family and had turned his back on them
Somebody should develop a genealogical tree of all the branches of the Medici family to the present day.
Small peasant family? I guess no one starts on top
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Great effort, but mixing peoples' portraits make it very hard to follow..
The most dangerous family on earth as they had a hand in the destruction of so many cultures and their histories.
How so..? They were creditors of many kings including france and england ..
Thier agent was amergigo vespucci...so u could say they were creditors of the United States ..
Well, as major bankers, some of their money would have ultimately gone on to fund wars in Europe but I wouldn’t call them “most dangerous family on Earth.”
Yes, they were a famous banking family but they weren’t the only ones existing at the time. Apart from Florence, there were also major bankers in the likes of Venice and Genoa. Personally, I believe the ones from Venice might have been the most cutthroat and dangerous.
Later on, German cities like Lubeck, Augsburg, and Cologne also became major financial centers.
In fact, what made the Medici so famous and may be among the reasons they lasted so long was their avoidance of conflict. They preferred to avoid dangers through political connections and a good reputation rather than hire mercenaries to confront a threat directly.
You used the wrong Cosimo a few times - example: 6:13
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Greedy bankers is nothing to be proud of lol
Does Medici family still exist today?
Logo, bottom right. Do yall see what i see?
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Not Medievil...Medicievil... 0:53
Lol Cosimo the elder and Cosimo I are different people. The picture you are showing Cosimo the elder is Cosimo I Grand Duke of Tuscany
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Stop calling these oligarchs peasants. They were never peasants. If they were we will never know, because it was for generations and generations before they became famous.
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Maybe in backwards Europe under the Church, but every place Eastward, whether China, Persia, or Egypt empires had long since figured it out, much of which European colonialism destroyed!
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I clicked off soon as this man said “ war” 😂
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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi is the inventor of the double accounting system.
Too many names. Too convoluted. Maybe small pieces expanded would be better. As presented this is terrible.
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''Beginning of 1340, an economic depression hit europe'' you mean the BLACK PLAGUE???
Eine oberflächliche und geirrte Geschichte.
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@@HistoryXFinance Can't wait to see your other works. This kind off videos is exactly what I was looking for to better understand the world and how it came to be today
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Thanks for watching till the end :)
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