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33 Cards in this Set
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When did the Renaissance begin? (Italy) |
Around 1450 |
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When did the Renaissance spread to England? |
By the 16th century |
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Condotteri |
Mercenary generals of private armies who were hired by cities |
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Ways cities were ruled? |
Signori, despot, oligarchy |
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Considered the center of Renaissance during 14th and 15th cent.; ruled by Medici family |
Republic of Florence |
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Unofficial ruler of Florence |
Consimo de Medici |
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Spent Medici fortune on art |
Lorenzo de Medici |
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Ruled by Sforza family; enemy of Venice, Florence, Naples |
Duchy of Milan |
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Quatrocento |
1400s |
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Longest standing Italian state; greatest maritime power in Italy: great military and trading power |
Venice |
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Only city-state to have a monarchy |
Naples |
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First Italian War |
King Charles VIII invaded Naples when encouraged by Ludovico (Milanese despot) |
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Girolamo Savonarola |
Became the unofficial ruler of Florence following the overthrow of the Medici family during First Italian War; oversaw a theocracy; eventually became French puppet and is killed |
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Sack of Rome |
1526; HRE Charles V; symbolized the end of the Italian Renaissance |
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Secularism |
The belief that religion should be separated from civil affairs |
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Petrarch |
First modern writer; wrote famous poetry in the vernacular |
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Boccaccio |
Compiled an encyclopedia of Greek and romantic mythology; wrote Decameron- 100 social commentary tales on Italy |
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Leonardo Bruni |
First to use the term humanism; highly valued education; wrote the first history of Florence |
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Valla |
Wrote Elegances of the Latin Language and On the False Donation of Constantine |
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Marsalis Ficini |
Founded the Platonic Academy and translated all of Plato's works into Latin |
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Mirandola |
Wrote Oration on the Dignity of Man; believed humans had great potential |
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Machiavelli |
The Prince |
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Castiglione |
Wrote The Book of the Courtier |
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Johann Guttenberg |
Movable type on printing press in 1454; published first printed Bible in Germany |
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Pope Alexander VI |
Spent huge amounts of money on art |
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Giorgio Vasari |
The Lives of the Artists |
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Erasmus |
New translations of the New Testament; In Praise of Folly |
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Thomas More |
Utopia |
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Lefrevre d'Etaples |
Produced 5 versions of the psalms; published the first translation of the Bible into French |
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Ximenes de Cisneros |
Reformed the Spanish clergy; Complutension Polyglot |
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Francois Rabelais |
Wrote fantasy, satire, and the grotesque; Gargantua and the Pantagruel |
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Miguel de Cirvantes |
Don Quixote |
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Laura Cereta |
Believed only women were to blame for their social inferiority |
