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14 Cards in this Set
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classics
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roman greek or latin type language used primarily by humanists
used to teach to write and argue effect. |
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Baldassare Castiglione
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Wrote the Courtier
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The Courtier
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Baldassare Castiglione wrote it
sought to train discipline and fashion envisioned what we now call a Renaissance man |
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The Prince
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said how the ruler should gain maintain and increase political power
said rulers should be focused on what's happening rather then ethics in order to maintain a sucessful gov't |
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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Wrote the Prince
Focused on political power |
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Secularism
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A way of thinking that tends to find the ultimate explanation of everything and the final end of human beings in what reason and the senses can discover, rather than in any spiritual or transcendental belief
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On Pleasure
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Written by humanist Lorenzo Valla
Defends the pleasures of the senses as the highest good |
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Lorenzo Valla
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Writes On Pleasure
Humanist |
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On the False Donation of Constantine
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Written by Lorenzo Valla
Through Cafelful texetual examination concludes that the document allowing the papacy control over Europe was indeed a forgery |
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Cesare Borgia
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Hero in the Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Decameron
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Written by Giovanni Boccachio
Contains the contempt of the world |
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Bourgeois
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Town's People/Middle Class
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Pope Julius II
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Tore down the Saint Peter's Basilica
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Peter Basilica
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Statue was torn down by Pope Julius II
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