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30 Cards in this Set
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Dante Alighieri
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1310-1320 Divine Comedy
100 cantos, hell, purgatory, heaven, Virgil voice of reason, Beatrice faith |
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Marsiglio of Padua
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1324 Defensor Pacis
Conciliarism |
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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1387-1400 Canterbury Tales
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Giovanni Boccaccio
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The Decameron
Described course of Black Death |
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François Villon
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1456 Lais
Grand Testament Ballade des Pendus |
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Christine de Pisan
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Livre de la mutacion de fortune, Ditié, The City of Ladies, The Book of Three Virtues, Avison-Christine
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Pico della Mirandola
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On the Dignity of Man-Divine image planted in man, no limits to what he can accomplish
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Lorenzo Valla
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On Pleasure
Defends pleasure of senses as highest good 1444 On the False Donation of Constantine-Shows by careful textual examination that anonymous eighth-century document giving papacy jurisdiction over vast territories in western Europe was fake |
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Balsadarre Castiglione
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1528 The Courtier
Train young man into courtly ideal, gentleman |
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Niccolò Macchiavelli (1469-1527)
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1513 The Prince
Best to be both feared and loved, better feared than loved, cunning of a fox and ferocity of a lion, ends justify means |
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Pietro Aretino
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1527 Sonnetti Lussuriosi, 1534-1536 Raggionamenti
Sonnets |
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Leon Battista Alberti
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On the Family
Wife’s role should be in household |
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Juan Luis Vives
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Instruction of the Christian Woman
Woman’s sphere the home |
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Sir Thomas Smith
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The English Commonwealth
Woman’s place the home |
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Thomas More
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1516 Utopia
Ideal socialistic community, fictional island, basic problems in society caused by greed |
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Desiderius Erasmus
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1504 The Education of a Christian Prince
Idealistic and practical suggestions for ruler’s character 1509 In Praise of Folly Satire of worldly wisdom, plea for simple and spontaneous Christian faith |
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François Rabelais
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Gargantua, Pantagruel
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Thomas à Kempis
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The Imitation of Christ
Take Christ as model, simple way of life |
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Martin Luther
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1517 Ninety-five Theses on the Power of Indulgences
Indulgences undermine seriousness of sacrament of penance, downplay importance of charity 1520 On Christian Liberty 1520 Appeal to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Call for German princes to destroy papal power in Germany, gains support of princes 1525 An Admonition to Peace Sides with peasants, but warns against violence Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of the Peasants Wants revolt crushed 1529 Larger Catechism Brief sermons on main articles of faith 1529 Shorter Catechism Concise explanations of doctrine in question-and-answer form, both catechisms stress Ten Commandments, Lord’s Prater, Apostle’s Creed, sacraments |
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John Calvin
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1536 The Institutes of the Christian Religion
God all-powerful, humans totally insignificant, no free will, predestination 1541 Genevan Catechism |
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Thomas Cranmer
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1549 Book of Common Prayer
With Psalter, included order for all services of Church of England |
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John Knox
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1564 Book of Common Order
Liturgical directory for Scottish church |
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Ignatius Loyola
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1548 Spiritual Exercises
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Holy Office
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Index of Prohibited Books
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Fernández de Oviedo
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1547 General History of the Indies
Plants, animals, people |
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Marco Polo
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ca 1298 Travels
Experiences in Asia, stimulated spice trade between Asia and Italy |
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Michael de Montaigne
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Essays
On Cannibals |
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Christopher Marlowe
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Tamburlaine, The Jew of Malta
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William Shakespeare
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Julius Caesar, Pericles, Antony and Cleopatra, Richard II, Richard III, Henry IV, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth
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James I
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1611 Authorized Bible
Urged by group of Puritans at theological conference in 1604 |
