Florentine oligarchy

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The Florentine oligarchy was the small, powerful elite of wealthy merchant and banking families who dominated the political and economic life of Renaissance Florence.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf oligarchy
political elite
social class
associatedWith Arte del Cambio NERFINISHED
Arte della Lana NERFINISHED
Florentine banking houses NERFINISHED
Medici Bank NERFINISHED
guild system of Florence
papal finances
composedOf banking families
guild leaders
patrician families
wealthy merchant families
controls economic life of Florence
political power in Florence
governsThrough Gonfaloniere of Justice NERFINISHED
Signoria of Florence NERFINISHED
priori delle arti
hasBasisIn banking
commerce
landownership
long-distance trade
wealth
includesFamily Albizzi family NERFINISHED
Medici family NERFINISHED
Pazzi family NERFINISHED
Rucellai family NERFINISHED
Strozzi family NERFINISHED
Tornabuoni family NERFINISHED
influences Florentine foreign policy
Florentine government NERFINISHED
Florentine legal system NERFINISHED
Florentine taxation
patronage networks
locatedIn Florence
Italy
Republic of Florence NERFINISHED
Tuscany
opposedBy Ciompi revolt NERFINISHED
popolo minuto
patronOf artists in Florence
humanists in Florence
religious institutions in Florence
playsRoleIn Florentine Renaissance culture NERFINISHED
timePeriod 14th century
15th century
16th century
Late Middle Ages
Renaissance NERFINISHED
usesMechanism control of offices
manipulation of electoral procedures
marriage alliances
patronage

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Rucellai family memberOf Florentine oligarchy