The Roman Academy in Florence

In a way Florence is booming while Rome is struggling. Yet and it's really noticeable in not only philosophy but say art because there are no artists in Rome getting jobs. If you want to be a pope and turn your city into a cultural capital, Florentine artists or artists from elsewhere who've gravitated to Florence are your easiest way of getting top-notch producers. So what they create with the Roman Academy is the ideal world in their mind. Christian spirituality grafted onto the elegance of the classical way of life. They would both venerate classical statues and say mass which a lot of them were qualified to do. This is the way they think about things that ancient Rome is the