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Jacob Burkhardt
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He was a historian of the 19th century that wrote many books concerning the renaissance. His work was accepted as demonstrating that the shift from corporate medieval society to the modern spirit occurred in "Renaissance" Italy in the 14th and 15th century
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Petrarch
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He was an Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest Renaissance humanists. Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism".
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Dante Alghieri
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He was an Italian poet of the Middle Ages. He was born in Florence. His Divine Comedy, originally called Commedia is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
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Boccaccio
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He was an Italian author and poet
He was also a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist. He was the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron |
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Lorenzo Valla
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He was an Italian humanist, rhetorician, and educator. He exposed the donations of the emperor to the Papacy to be false.
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The Florentine “Academy”
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Was founded by Cosimo Medici. Wasn't a true academy but rather a group of people dedicated to art. Originated in Florence.
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The Medicis
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Was a political dynasty, banking family and later royal house that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici in the Republic of Florence during the late 14th century. They were considered the nobility in Florence.
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Christine de Pisan
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A sort of feminist who believed that there was a different view of the renaissance that women had to offer but she recognized men as the head of it.
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Raphael
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Was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Most known for the School of Athens.
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Donatello
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Was a famous early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence. He was the one who created the bronze David.
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Michelangelo
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Michelangelo was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Best known for the sculpture of David and the paintings on the Sistine Chapel.
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Leonardo
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Was an Italian polymath. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. Best known for the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa.
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Italy’s major city-states
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Venice, Milan, Florence, The Papal States and Genoa.
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Julius II
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Nicknamed "The Fearsome Pope" (Il Papa Terribile) and "The Warrior Pope" (Il Papa Guerriero), born Giuliano della Rovere, was Pope from 1503 to 1513. His papacy was marked by an active foreign policy, ambitious building projects, and patronage for the arts.
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Alexander VI
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He is one of the most controversial of the Renaissance popes, and his surname (Italianized as Borgia) became a byword for the debased standards of the papacy of that era. He was a practicer of Simony, placing many of his relatives in seats of power. Also had children.
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Leo X
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Was Pope from 1513 to his death in 1521.
He was the last non-priest to be elected Pope. He is known primarily for the sale of indulgences to reconstruct St. Peter's Basilica and his challenging of Martin Luther's 95 Theses. He was a pope at a very young age. This shows the corruption in the church. |
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Ludovico il Moro
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A member of the Sforza dynasty of Milan. He commissioned the Last Supper.
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The Borgias
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Were a Valencian(Spanish)-Italian noble family who became prominent during the Renaissance. They are remembered today for their corrupt rule when one of them was Pope.
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Savonarola
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He was known for his book burning, destruction of what he considered immoral art, and hostility to the Renaissance. He did everything in the name of the church but ironically was put to death by them.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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Was an Italian philosopher and writer, and is considered one of the main founders of modern political science. He wrote The Prince which is a book about how to rule a country.
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Michelangelo
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Michelangelo was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Best known for the sculpture of David and the paintings on the Sistine Chapel.
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Leonardo
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Was an Italian polymath. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. Best known for the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa.
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Italy’s major city-states
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Venice, Milan, Florence, The Papal States and Genoa.
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Julius II
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Nicknamed "The Fearsome Pope" (Il Papa Terribile) and "The Warrior Pope" (Il Papa Guerriero), born Giuliano della Rovere, was Pope from 1503 to 1513. His papacy was marked by an active foreign policy, ambitious building projects, and patronage for the arts.
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Alexander VI
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He is one of the most controversial of the Renaissance popes, and his surname (Italianized as Borgia) became a byword for the debased standards of the papacy of that era. He was a practicer of Simony, placing many of his relatives in seats of power. Also had children.
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Leo X
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Was Pope from 1513 to his death in 1521.
He was the last non-priest to be elected Pope. He is known primarily for the sale of indulgences to reconstruct St. Peter's Basilica and his challenging of Martin Luther's 95 Theses. He was a pope at a very young age. This shows the corruption in the church. |
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Ludovico il Moro
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A member of the Sforza dynasty of Milan. He commissioned the Last Supper.
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The Borgias
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Were a Valencian(Spanish)-Italian noble family who became prominent during the Renaissance. They are remembered today for their corrupt rule when one of them was Pope.
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Savonarola
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He was known for his book burning, destruction of what he considered immoral art, and hostility to the Renaissance. He did everything in the name of the church but ironically was put to death by them.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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Was an Italian philosopher and writer, and is considered one of the main founders of modern political science. He wrote The Prince which is a book about how to rule a country.
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Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
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Married to settle hostilities between the House of Aragon and the House of Castile. Favored the Spanish Inquisition. Considered them selves to be protectors of Christianity.
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Johannes Gutenberg
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Invented the printing press.
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Albrecht Durer (the German Leonardo)
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Northern Renaissance artist. He was the one who painted the Four Horsemen.
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Hans Holbein the Younger
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Considered to be the greatest landscape artist ever. Northern Renaissance.
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Erasmus
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Sometimes known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist and a Catholic priest and theologian. He wrote about St. Peter and Julius the Second at the gates of Heaven.
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Thomas More
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During his life he gained a reputation as a leading Renaissance humanist, an opponent of the Protestant Reformation, of Martin Luther and of William Tyndale. He wrote Utopia which said that everything bad in life like was i caused by things like owning property and owning possessions.
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Tudor
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The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor was a prominent European royal house of Welsh origin that ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms, including the Lordship and Kingdom of Ireland, from 1485 until 1603.
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Hapsburg
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Was one of the most important royal houses of Europe and is best known for being an origin of all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1438 and 1740, as well as rulers of the Austrian and Spanish Empires and several other countries. Spain/Austria.
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Valois
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French House.
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Bartalomeo de las Casas
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He was a 16th-century Spanish Dominican priest and writer. As a settler in the New World he witnessed, and was driven to oppose, the poor treatment of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists and advocated before King Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor on behalf of rights for the natives.
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The Fuggers
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Was a family that was historically a prominent group of European bankers. This banking family replaced the family known as the Medici who influenced all of Europe during the Renaissance. The Fuggers took over many of the Medici assets as well as their political power and influence.
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