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European History Renaissance
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09/05/2012

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Renaissance
Definition
Rebirth
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Leon Battista Alberitt
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high regard for human dignity and worth, realization of human potential
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Jacob Burkhardt
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created modern idea of Renaissance of a birthplace of modern world and saw revival of antiquity and secularism as it's distinguishing features
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Hanseatic League
Definition
commercial and military association
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House of Medici
Definition
greatest bank in Europe, with branches in Venice, Milan, Rome, Avigon, Brages, London, and Lyon
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Book of the Courtier
Definition
Certain ideals came to be expected of the aristocrat that are expressed in this book, 3 basic attributes
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Condotti
Definition
leaders or bands of mercenary soldiers
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Name the 5 Italian states in the Renaissance
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Milan, Venice, Papal, Florence, Naples
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Francesco Sforza
Definition
worked to create a highly centralized territorial state, successful in devising system of taxation that generated enormous revenues for government
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Cosimo De' Medici
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took control of merchant oligarchy, successful in dominating city when Florence was center of cultural Renaissance
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Papal States
Definition
central Italy where residence and great schism enabled cities and territories to become independent
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Isabella d'Este
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known for intelligence and political wisdom, efficiently ruled Mantua and won a reputation as a clever negotiator
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Peace of Lodi
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Ended half-centry war and inaugurated a relatively peaceful 40-year era in Italy
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Balance of Power
Definition
Designed to prevent the aggrandizement of any one state at the expense of others
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Sack of Rome
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Spanish won after attack of Rome in 1527
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The Prince
Definition
Machiavelli's ideas of politics discussing a princes attitude toward power that must be based on an gaining fear from the people.
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Humanism
Definition
an intellectual movement based on the intellectual study of the classical literacy works of Greece and Rome
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Petrarch
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Father of Italian Renaissance humanism
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Civic Humanism
Definition
a movement that became closely tied to civic spirit and pride
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Cicero
Definition
a statesman and an intellectual
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Leonardo Bruni's "The New Cicero"
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waxed enthusiastic about the fusion of political action and literary creation in Cicero's life.
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Lorenzo Valla
Definition
wanted to purify medieval Latin and restore Latin to its proper position over the vernacular
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Marcelo Ficino
Definition
Dedicated his life to translation of Plato and exposition of the Platonic philosophies, known as Neoplatonism
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Neoplatonism
Definition
Platonic Philosophies
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Hermeticsm
Definition
A product of Florentine intellectual environment teaching that divinity is embodied in all aspects of nature, including the work of alchemy and magic, as well as theology and philosophy
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Pantheism
Definition
seeing divinity embodied in all aspects of nature and in heavenly bodies as well as earthly objects
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Oration on Dignity of Man
Definition
diligent works of many philosophers of different backgrounds for the common "nuggets of truth" that Mirandela believed were all part of God's revolution to humanity
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Liberal Studies
Definition
purpose was to produce individual's who followed a path of virtue and wisdom and possessed the rhetorical skills with which to persuade others to do the same
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Guiccidarrni
Definition
represents the beginning of modern analytical histographu
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Johannes Gutenberg
Definition
Her bible was the first true book in the west produced from the printing press
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Masaccio
Definition
first masterpiece of early Renaissance art
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Lorenzo, the magnificent
Definition
Circle of artists and scholars formed part of the court of the city's leading citizen, Lorenzo the Magnificent
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Boticellie Primavera
Definition
painting that possesses otherworldly qualities that is far removed from the realism that characterized the painting of the Early Renaissance
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Dontello's David
Definition
Celebrated heroism in the triumph of Florentine's over the Milanese
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Brucillieschi's Dome
Definition
first dome, new type of architecture
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High Renaissance
Definition
Final stage of Renaissance Art, dominated by Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael
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Leonardo Da Vince
Definition
Transformed the High Renaissance's preoccupation with idealization of nature, or the attempt to generalize from realistic portrayal to an ideal form.
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Raphael
Definition
attempted to achieve an ideal beauty far surpassing human standards
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Michelangelo
Definition
influenced by Neoplatonism, painted Sistine Chapel
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David
Definition
exalts beauty of human body and human power
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Northern Artistic Renaissance
Definition
Realism in the North, gothic cathedrals with strained glass windows
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Jan Van Eyck
Definition
imitated nature by empirical observation of visual reality and accurate portrayal of detail

Painted Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride
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Abbrecht Dürer
Definition
absort most of what Italians could teach and brought it back to the North
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Georgio Vasi
Definition
Praises Da Vinci
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Madrigal
Definition
A 12-line poem set to music
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New Monarchies
Definition
results of attempts that were made reestablish the centralized power of monarical governments
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King Lous VI
Definition
created a base for later development of a strong French monarchy
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Henry VII
Definition
Skilled at extracting invome, which enhanced status for monarchy
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Ferdinand of Lancaster and Isabella of Castile
Definition
2 rulers who reorganized religions in spain
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Hansburg
Definition
Wealthiest landholders in empire by mid-15th century
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Ivan III
Definition
annexed principalities, took advantage of dissension among the Mongols to throw off their yoke by 1480
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Constantinople 1453
Definition
Ottomans destroyed by Zatine empire
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John Wyclif
Definition
Disgusted with clerical corruption which led him to far-raging attack on papal authority and medieval Christian beliefs and
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John Hus
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urged elimination of worldliness and corruption of clergy and attacked the excessive power of the papacy within the Catholic Church
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