LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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The Declaration of Independence
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The Signoria
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The Magna Carta
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The Constitution
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Detailed explanation-1: -They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. signoria, (Italian: “lordship”), in the medieval and Renaissance Italian city-states, a government run by a signore (lord, or despot) that replaced republican institutions either by force or by agreement.
Detailed explanation-2: -Use of word For example, the word was sometimes used in Renaissance times to refer to the government of the Republics of Florence or of Venice, as in Shakespeare’s Othello in which Othello says: “Let him do his spite: My services which I have done the signiory.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Signoria of Florence (Italian: “lordship") was the government of the medieval and Renaissance Republic of Florence, between 1250 and 1532. Its nine members, the Priori, were chosen from the ranks of the guilds of the city: six of them from the major guilds, and two from the minor guilds.
Detailed explanation-4: -It became the focal point of the brash Florentine Republic-the centre of Renaissance art of the quattrocento. It was also the place where Savonarola and his followers staged their famous Bonfire of the Vanities, in 1497, and where Savonarola himself was hanged.