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new intellectual movement that focused on secular themes rather than on the religious ideas that had concerned the medieval thinkers
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humanism
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classical writing, art and society
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Humanism had an interest in what three areas
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worldly
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secular
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an emphasis on the dignity and worth of the individual person
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individualism
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poetry form with 14 lines and a fixed pattern of rhyme and meter
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sonnet
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wrote short poems, or sonnets, for a woman he loved who died in the Bubonic Plague
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Francesco Petrarca
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elected leader of Venice's republican government
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doge
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castles built in France that combined the Gothic and classical forms
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chateaux
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doctrine that held that a person can be deemed good because of faith alone
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justification by faith
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certificates ussued by the Catholic Church that could reduce or even eliminate someone's punishment for sins
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indulgences
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a calling from God to take up a certain work
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vocation
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state that is run by a church that is independent from Catholicism
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theocracy
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doctrine that held that God determines everything that happens inthe past, present, and future
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predestination
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school for the training of Catholic priests
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seminary
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ornate, dramatic artistic style developed in Europe in the 1550s
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baroque
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founded the Society of Jesus or the Jesuits
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Ignatius of Loyola
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ruler who enjoyed tennis, jousting, music and theology
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Henry VIII
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the period of the awakening of learning and great change
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Renaissance
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In 1456 printed a complete edition of the Bible using metal type
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Johannes Gutenberg
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diplomat who wrote The Prince, a book that realistically analyzed the politics of Renaissance Italy
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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known as "the Magnificent"; ruled Florence and used his wealth to support artisits, philosophers and writers and to sponsor public festivals
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Lorenzo de Medici
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painter, architect, sculptor and poet; created David, a gigantic marble statue
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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painter, sculptor, architect and engineer who painted the Mona Lisa
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Florence, Rome and Venice
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3 cities that played leading roles in the Renaissance
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powerful political leaders
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signori
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