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Italian Renaissance

Vocabulary

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What is Florence?

This Italian city-state is considered the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance.

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Who were the Medici ( Cosimo and Lorenzo) to

name a few?This was the patron family of bankers that financed many artists during the Italian Renaissance.

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Who was Filippo Bruneleschi?

He was the architect for the largest dome built during the Renaissance, which is still one of the largest built with natural materials.

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What was Neo-Platonism? This was the philosophy that

flourished in Florence and was espoused by Marsilio Ficino, which stated that humans when inspired can transcend all limitations and strive for perfection or the ideal.

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What The Prince, by Machiavelli?

This was the book and political guide that stated, “It is better to be feared than loved” and “The end justifies the means”.

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Who was Ludovico il Moro of the Sforza family of

Milan?He was the Italian despot who invited the French to invade Italy in order to defeat Naples and its allies in 1494.

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Who was Girolamo Savonarola?

He was the radical Dominican monk who expelled the Medici family from Florence and welcomed the France and was eventually executed.

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Who were Boccaccio and Petrarch?

The death of these two writers in 1374-75 signified to many historians the start of the Italian Renaissance.

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Who was Baldassare Castigione

He authored the “ Book of the Courtier” which detailed the qualities of a Renaissance gentleman and lady.

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Who was Giotto?

He was the Italian painter who used lightness and darkness (chiaroscuro) to create depth in his paintings and bridged the gap between Medieval and Renaissance styles.

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What are the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and

Northern France ( Benelux)?

These would be the modern countries that made up the area of Flanders.

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Who were The Brothers of the Common Life?

This was the lay movement based in the Netherlands that supported the spread of humanism and humanist ideals.

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Who was civic humanism?

The term used to define the trend that Renaissance scholars should use their knowledge to help their communities and do what was good and right.

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What was the Donation of Constantine?

The document exposed as a forgery by Lorenzo Valla, which supposedly gave the Papacy the lands of Italy to rule.

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What was mannerism?

The Renaissance art that used emotion, passion and emphasized complexity and distortion as opposed to harmony, and the use of color.

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What was “Utopia”?

This was the book written by Thomas More which describes an ideal society on an island in the Atlantic, where gold, silver and jewels have no value.

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Who were the Fuggers?

This was the rich banking family from Augsburg who were patrons of the arts and financed Charles V’s bid to become the Holy Roman Emperor

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What was Religious Mysticism

This was a tendency during the Northern Renaissance towards a personal religious experience with God without the church espoused by thinkers like Thomas a Kempis.

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What was Gutenberg’s Printing Press?

This device helped spread the diverse humanist ideas and messages of religious reform of the Northern Renaissance.

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What was Miguel Cervantes’ Don Quixote?

This was the book written by a former Spanish soldier and slave ( captured by Barbary pirates) that poked fun at chivalry and revealed insights into Spanish life.

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Who was Desiderius Erasmus?

He is considered the greatest of the Northern Humanists who influenced Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin.

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Who was Albrecht Durer?

He was the “German Leonardo” who studied in Italy and painted portraits, as well as several self portraits and created elaborate wood and copper prints.

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Who was Johann Reuchlin?He was Europe’s foremost authority on Hebrew and Jewish teachings who was criticized by Catholic scholars but was defended by German Humanists.

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Who was Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros?

He was the Spanish Catholic cleric who used humanist ideas to reform Catholic Spain by creating the University at Alcala and writing the Complutensian Polyglot Bible.

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Who was Rudolf Agricola?

He was known as the father of German Humanism and returned from Italy and introduced Italian humanist ideas to Germany.

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