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18 Cards in this Set
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Dante
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1265-1321; wrote Divine Comedy (1310-1320), in different style than “tragic”; poem referring to 3 parts of the next world
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Chaucer
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1340-1400; wrote Canterbury Tales (1387-1400), a collection of stories in lengthy, rhymed narrative- depicted interests and behavior of all people
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Villon
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wrote Grand Testament; modern poet, using vernacular of the poor and criminals
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Boccaccio
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1313-1375; wrote Decameron, a collection of 100 tales set during the Black Death
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Donatello
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1386-1466; an Italian sculptor who brought back an appreciation of human nature
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Michaelangelo
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1450-1564; famous for painting the Sistine Chapel and the Sculpture of David
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Brunelleschi
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1337-1446; began putting “perspective” in paintings, the linear representation of distance and space on a flat surface
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Erasmus
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1466-1536; Christian humanist who wrote “Adages” and “Handbook of Christian Knights”, believed that there was more of a need of inner-faith and not external worship
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Thomas More
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1478-1535; wrote “Utopia”, of a wonderful and perfect world, and is nowhere to be found because we are human, but as long as we strived towards it, we will get closer to it than not, beheaded by Henry VII
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Rabelais
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1490?-1553; humorist who wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel, which made fun of contemporary French society
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Van Eyck
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1366-1441; one of the earliest artists to use oil-based paints successfully, had a love for detail
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Louis XI
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1423-1483; French king who worked with Henry VII, and Ferdinand and Isabella called “new monarchs” who had a strong sense of royal authority and national purpose; stressed monarchy was the best
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Henry VII
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1457-1509; king of England who with Louis XI, and Ferdinand and Isabella were called “new monarchs”, did not trust the nobles, and rebuilt the monarchy after the Tudors became popular
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Charles VII
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1422-1461; revived the monarchy in France after the 100 Years’ War
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Cesare Borgia
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son of Pope Alexander VI and was hero of The Prince, untied the peninsula and conquered and enforced obedience in the Papal States
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Pope Julius II
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1503-1513; summoned the ecumenical council to reform the papacy
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Henry VIII
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1509-1546; “King’s Great Matter”; English (but supported Catholics), married to Catherine who could not produce a male heir, fell in love with Anne Boleyn (she got pregnant), annulled Catherine (through giving Parliament same religious power as papacy), and Anne births boy after 5 tries; King is now head of church
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Pope Clement VII
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during the Great Schism; after Pope Urban VI was selfish, French cardinals claimed duress and elected Clement, but Urban never stepped down, then after the Councilar movement, Pope John XXIII was elected, but Clement and Urban never stepped down; beared much responsibility for the great spread of Protestantism
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