Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Donati and Cerchi - Inspiration for Romeo and Juliet?

Around the year 1300, a feud broke out between the Cerchi and Donati families in Florence, Italy.The cause was never recorded.The Cerchi headed the Ghibelline faction (Whites, who supported an Italian empire), and the Donati headed the Guelph faction (Blacks, who favored independent city-states). Fighting between families extended to friends and other citizens.Soon everyone was somehow entangled in this 50-year brawl, which split the city-state of Florence. Citizens would line up on opposite sides of the street.Then they would meet in the middle to fight one another in the name of Cerchi or Donati. Please research both families and post your findings. Do not forget to cite your sources.

55 comments:

  1. Around the year 1300, a feud broke out between the Cerchi and Donati families in Florence, Italy. The cause was never recorded. The Cerchi headed the Ghibelline faction (Whites, who supported an Italian empire), and the Donati headed the Guelph faction (Blacks, who favored independent city-states). Fighting between families extended to friends and other citizens. Soon everyone was somehow entangled in this 50-year brawl, which split the city-state of Florence. Citizens would line up on opposite sides of the street. Then they’d meet in the middle to fight one another in the name of Cerchi or Donati. (http://ela9honors.wikispaces.com/file/view/The+Cerchi+and+Donati+Feud.doc)

    ReplyDelete
  2. Very little is recorded about the Cerchi family, but the Donati reputation survives. The Donatis were known to be arrogant, powerful, reckless, yet courageous Florentine nobles. They were most powerful during the 1200s and 1300s, when Corso Donati ruled Florence. However, he became obsessed with losing power and grew suspicious of nearly everyone. Consequently, he started fighting with members of his own class. In 1299, he was banished from the city for disregarding the laws of the city-state. But he broke his banishment and forced his way back into the city. Then he ransacked his enemies’ houses, freed his supporters from prisons, and set up his own government. His reign was brief as his quick temper and irrational behavior turned supporters, or Guelphs, against him. Eventually, he was killed in a second attempt to cause rebellion. http://ela9honors.wikispaces.com/file/view/The+Cerchi+and+Donati+Feud.doc

    ReplyDelete
  3. Violence occurred everyday in Italy . Family feuds were a typical thing in Italy just like the capulets and montagues . The Cerchi was whites who supported the Italian empire and the donati's were blacks who favorited independent city states . This all occurred like in the 1300's .

    ReplyDelete
  4. They all hate each other and it's like Romeo and Juliet . "Around the year 1300, a feud broke out between the Cerchi and Donati families in Florence, Italy" http://ela9honors.wikispaces.com/file/view/The+Cerchi+and+Donati+Feud.doc
    Jacob martindale

    ReplyDelete
  5. It inspiring because in the book Romeo and Juliet their are two gangs that are against eachother the montagues and capilets and they were in spirited by Donati and Cerchi . In both in the past and the book started fight for no reason and no one knows or remember why.

    ReplyDelete
  6. The Donati was know as powerful and reckless. There was very little recorded about the Cerchi. The Donatis were the most powerful during the 1200 and 1300's when Corso Donati ruled Florence. But he became obsessed with power and started getting suspicious of everyone. He even fought with his own family. He was banished from the city in 1299, but he came back and freed his supporters from prisons.(http://ela9honors.wikispaces.com/file/view/The+Cerchi+and+Donati+Feud.doc)(karissa and Jessica)

    ReplyDelete
  7. Fighting between families extended to friends and other citizens. Soon everyone was somehow entangled in this 50-year brawl, which split the city-state of Florence. Citizens would line up on opposite sides of the street. Then they’d meet in the middle to fight one another in the name of Cerchi or Donati. -Michelle Salazar....;D

    -Ó1996 Perfection Learning Corporation. Logan, Iowa

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. The jobs for women were to porvide labor for guilds or be Midwives or market-women or Prostitutes. It depended on the women's social class.

      Delete
  8. In 1299, he was banished from the city for disregarding the laws of the city-state. But he broke his banishment and forced his way back into the city. Then he ransacked his enemies’ houses, freed his supporters from prisons, and set up his own government. His reign was brief as his quick temper and irrational behavior turned supporters, or Guelphs, against him. Eventually, he was killed in a second attempt to cause rebellion". (http://ela9honors.wikispaces.com/file/view/The+Cerchi+and+Donati+Feud.doc) florentine nobles were the most powerful people. People woul fight with members of there own class. He also killed in a second to attempt to start rebellion.

    ReplyDelete
  9. There fued would start in the 1300 they where in Florence Italy at the time and I think this inspired shakespeare to make Romeo and Juliet. " www.wikispaces.com "
    By Reynaldo and joselyn Rodriguez

    ReplyDelete
  10. Around the year 1300, a feud broke out between the Cerchi and Donati families in Florence, Italy. The cause was never recorded.Fighting between families extended to friends and other citizens.

    ReplyDelete
  11. " In 1299, he was banished from the city for disregarding the laws of the city-state. But he broke his banishment and forced his way back into the city. Then he ransacked his enemies’ houses, freed his supporters from prisons, and set up his own government. His reign was brief as his quick temper and irrational behavior turned supporters, or Guelphs, against him. Eventually, he was killed in a second attempt to cause rebellion."http://ela9honors.wikispaces.com/file/view/The+Cerchi+and+Donati+Feud.doc

    ReplyDelete
  12. "Vieri dei Cerchi, (flourished 1300, Florence [Italy]), Florentine noble and banker who became the leader of the faction known as the Whites in the civil strife of the late 13th century."
    http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/103246/Vieri-dei-Cerchi
    ENCYCLOP AE DIA BRITANNICA

    ReplyDelete
  13. The Florentine banking family of the Cerchi, minor nobles of the Valdarno, with a seat especially at Acone near Pontassieve, settled in Florence in the early thirteenth century and increased their fortunes. The family became the heads of a consortium of the prominent Guelfs that securely controlled Florence after the battle of Benevento in 1266. In Florence, the Cerchi purchased some of the ancient structures in the closely packed inner city formerly belonging to the counts Guidi, cheek-by-jowl with the proud Florentine family of the Donati, with whom their growing mutual antagonism was expressed in violent episodes that polarized Florence within a couple of decades in a virtual civil war that aligned behind two captains, Corso Donati of the Neri Guelf faction— the "Black" Guelfs of the old noble oligarchy— and Vieri de' Cerchi of the Bianchi, the moderate party that represented itself as champions of working people (the magri). The resulting violence lasted, with irruptions of tranquility, into the fourteenth century.
    (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerchi

    ReplyDelete
  14. "the year 1300, a feud broke out between the Cerchi and Donati families in Florence, Italy. The cause was never recorded. The Cerchi headed the Ghibelline faction (Whites, who supported an Italian empire), and the Donati headed the Guelph faction (Blacks, who favored independent city-states). Fighting between families extended to friends and other citizens."

    (Logan,1)

    ReplyDelete
  15. Lexie, Tylor, & Allan:
    Very little is recorded about the Cerchi family, but the Donati reputation survives. They were most powerful during the 1200s and 1300s, when Corso Donati ruled Florence. His reign was brief as his quick temper and irrational behavior turned supporters, or Guelphs, against him. Eventually, he was killed in a second attempt to cause rebellion.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Cite we're you got your information from

      Delete
    2. http://ela9honors.wikispaces.com/file/view/The+Cerchi+and+Donati+Feud.doc

      Delete
  16. There was a feud between two families that ran sacked each others enemies’ houses, freed his supporters from prisons, and set up his own government. His reign was brief as his quick temper and irrational behavior turned supporters, or Guelphs, against him. Eventually, he was killed in a second attempt to cause rebellion.

    (Ó1996 Perfection Learning Corporation. Logan, Iowa)

    ReplyDelete
  17. The Donati family was known to be arrogant,powerful,reckless,yet courages. They were most powerful during the 1200's and the 1300's. Carso Donati ruled Florence during 1200-1300's.

    ReplyDelete
  18. Donaties were known to be arrogant,powerful,reckless,yet coragess florentine nobles. They were most powereful during 1200s and 1300s when Corso donati ruled Florence. The cerchi family wanted peace and the donates wanted power.(ancient faces) (donati and cerchi feud)

    ReplyDelete
  19. The fighting between the families began in the 1300 era and lasted for at least 50 years but the feude seperated the city. It was almost like segregation because blacks believed in a independent city and the whites did not. Creighton Ubides Anastacio Fuerte Daniel kittinger

    ReplyDelete
  20. In the 13th century people were forced to join the Donatis and if not the Cerchi. If you did not join any of those groups you were considered to be a weak person. If you were apart of any of those groups and someone dishonored the group you were forced to defend your group and fight for it.

    ReplyDelete
  21. They all hate each other and it's like Romeo and Juliet . Around the year 1300, a feud broke out between the Cerchi and Donati families in Florence, Italy.

    By:Ethan Jacob Burton
    And
    Louie Villaseñor

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. "http://ela9honors.wikispaces.com/file/view/The+Cerchi+and+Donati+Feud.doc
      Jacob martindale"

      Delete
  22. People back in the 1300s were the fighting began and lasted for 50 years but the feud sepperated the city and the racism was bad there was killing and fighting .
    Jose fierro
    Nathaniel Dominguez

    ReplyDelete
  23. "The Florentine banking family of the Cerchi, minor nobles of the Valdarno, after the war became very little of the Cherchi family and the Donati because the ruler of Florence but started to lose power"
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerchi
    http://ela9honors.wikispaces.com/file/view/The+Cerchi+and+Donati+Feud.doc

    ReplyDelete
  24. Corso Donati was very powerful around the 1200's and 1300's but he was obesessd about losing power and grew suspicious to nearly everyone then fought with his class.
    Stephanie Cruz&Justin Vargas

    ReplyDelete
  25. "The Donati family name is an old family line that has migrated all across the world over time, and as the Donati family has spread, it has evolved making its history challenging to unearth. This Donati research page contains the accumulated history of the Donati surname made up of user-submitted content from other users interested in the Donati family. Donati family history has rich origins whose details can be pieced together by Donati family researchers. (ancientfaces)"

    Joshua Abbott & Marleene Carlos

    ReplyDelete
  26. Society in Elizabethan England was changing and the number of poor people living in abject poverty was increasing. A series of laws was introduced by the English Parliament in 1563, 1572, 1576, 1597 culminating in the 1601 Poor Law. Views on the poor changed throughout this period beginning with a harsh attitude towards the poor but easing towards a more compassionate approach. There were a number of reasons for the poverty and the increasing numbers of the poor in Elizabethan England, some of the reasons dated back to before the reign of Queen Elizabeth. http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/the-poor-law.htm

    ReplyDelete
  27. Servants, lady in waiting, wives, concubine, bar maids, farm hands, nuns, the list can go on. Basically they where oppressed".
    By Reynaldo zarate and Joselyn Rodriguez

    ReplyDelete
  28. Education: Women were unable to attend school or universities to have access to proper education. However they were allowed to have private tutors. This still allowed them to become highly educated, as seen with Queen Elizabeth herself. In most occurrences it would be the man that would teach his wife to read and write.
    https://patricianbrothers.wikispaces.com/Expectations+of+women+in+sixteenth+century+England.

    ReplyDelete
  29. The Poor in Elizabethan England
    Society in Elizabethan England was changing and the number of poor people living in abject poverty was increasing. A series of laws was introduced by the English Parliament in 1563, 1572, 1576, 1597 culminating in the 1601 Poor Law. Views on the poor changed throughout this period beginning with a harsh attitude towards the poor but easing towards a more compassionate approach. There were a number of reasons for the poverty and the increasing numbers of the poor in Elizabethan England, some of the reasons dated back to before the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
    http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/the-poor-law.htm

    ReplyDelete
  30. Education : : they had private tutors . They were allowed to get high education .

    ReplyDelete
  31. BARBER
    A Barber had many occupations in relation to personal care. Barbers would cut hair but would also serve as dentists, surgeons and blood-letters.
    BLACKSMITH
    The Blacksmith was one of the most important, albeit lowly, occupations of the Elizabethan era. Blacksmiths forged weapons, sharpened weapons, repaired armor.

    -Enrique Ramirez and Meleek west

    ReplyDelete
  32. She could work at court or could help in business or cook or clean the house hold and she could make clothes weaving and taking care of little animals each class hade different jobs they could do what ever Job they hade so Juliet can do all those jobs and not be on the street. Posted by Paige and bailey

    ReplyDelete
  33. Women in the Elizabethan era could get a job as a servant or nurse. Some women from rich families could sometimes get an education. Lower class women were supposed to be dependent to the males to support them. Lower class women were not supposed to go to any university. When lower class 12 they were supposed to be married.
    (Karissa and Jessica)

    ReplyDelete
  34. In England the society was very poor and the best thing that women can do is work hard labor to be able to live in England. The women could not go to any kind of education like schools or collages. So the only thing the women can do is be maids or be married or other small jobs. Jacob martindale,Mercedes angel

    ReplyDelete
  35. In elizabethan era the jobs that were available for women were making clothes .

    -Cristina & Alicia

    ReplyDelete
  36. -he was sad because he couldn't see his beloved Juliet
    -yes he should be grateful
    -no because he's the one who committed a crime
    -yes he has an immature behavior
    Heaven Lindell and Valerie Delarosa

    ReplyDelete
  37. After marriage the bride would take care of households and the children. Before the bride had a baby they would make arrangements so when the bride died some one would take care of the baby. Women were not suppose to be educated in this time. If women were educated they would of been wealthy. When girls turn 12 they have to get married .

    ReplyDelete
  38. Young women had to clean around the house. They have to look after animals. They had cook as well.
    -William & Nathan

    ReplyDelete
  39. The girls have to get married at the age of twelve. Once there married they had to take care of the household and there children.
    Stephanie Cruz& Justin Vargas

    ReplyDelete
  40. What young woman did to stay off the street was had to clean houses are be a maid like nurse

    ReplyDelete
  41. A clerk cook clothier jester messenger
    Nathaniel & Alexandra

    ReplyDelete
  42. Young women jobs were to be a maid such as cleaning the house and watching the animals in the elizebethian era There was nothing for the government to do for the people.

    ReplyDelete
  43. Women who were married were still expected to do the same duties that they usually do. They were expected to cook, clean, and garden unless you were wealthy. If you were wealthy you were expected to just look beautiful at all times.

    ReplyDelete
  44. They Started Cleaning Other People's Houses And Help them with stuff.

    ReplyDelete
  45. Unmarried women in different social classes where treated differently. Women during this time where taught to believe that men where inferior to them. Commerce women would not have attend school.

    ReplyDelete
  46. A women had to be a proper women in order to be able to have a job in the world back then. They had to cook and clean like a house wife almost but it was still a harsh job to do. Daniel kittinger

    ReplyDelete
  47. Lexie, Efrain, Tylor, and Allan:
    A young woman in the Elizabethan Era could clean houses, take care of animals or children. They could bake breakfast, lunch, and dinner for rich family's. The Chaplain was responsible for the religious activities of a castle servants and Men at arms. The duties might also include that of a clerk and keeping accounts. A Priest would usually looked after the spiritual needs and confessions of the Nobles and their families.The Cottar is the lowest peasant occupants. The fletcher crafted and manufactured bows and fights of arrows

    ReplyDelete
  48. The royal family had an upper class jobs the own large tracks




    -Marlene Carlos and jasmine Perez

    ReplyDelete
  49. The Donati family is arrogant and courages. They where most powerful during the 1200s and 1300s.
    Alberto and Jose

    ReplyDelete