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In the late fourteenth century, Florence had survived the Black Death and begun its transformation to a center of cloth making, international banking, and the revival of classical learning. Unfortunately, the greatest statesman of the age, the Milanese leader, Giangaleazzo, came to power and began a series of military and political campaigns to take control of what is now northern Italy. By 1402, Florence stood alone with Milan’s armies on the boarder and about to invade again. Remarkably, however, the plague spread through the countryside and killed the Milanese leader, lifting the immediate threat to the city. Having survived the most serious crisis of their history, the Florentines explored why they came so close to extinction. Their answer, in part, was their system of education, an arid scholasticism which emphasized the importance of scholars being detached from society. In its place, they put in place a new approach to education, once that put scholars in service to the needs of society. This new approach to education, civic humanism, is now known as the liberal arts [1].
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Newton, W.P. (2022). Engaging the Future of Family Medicine and Healthcare. In: Paulman, P.M., Taylor, R.B., Paulman, A.A., Nasir, L.S. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54441-6_171
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