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Western Civilization
Chapter 13: Transition to the Modern Age
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11/07/2006

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Renaissance
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means rebirth. A period of time where artists and thinkers attempted to recover and apply ancient learning of standards of Greece and Rome.
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Jacob Burckhardt
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historian. wrote The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy.
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Ciompi
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(means wool-workers) they led a revolt in Florence.
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Repulicanism
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a period in Italy which was guided by a Constitution.
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Despotism
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the second period in Italy. During this time a single ruler or a group of individuals ruled.
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Condottieri
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the leaders of mercenary troops
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Medicis
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A rich banking family that took over Florentine republicanism.
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Cosimo de Medicis
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was returned from exile and came to power in Florence.
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Lorenzo the Magnificent
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Cosimo's grandson. He set up a government in Florence staffed by his own supporters
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Council of Ten
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A body of rulers in Venice who were elected
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Peace of Lodi
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Initiated by Cosimo de Medicis, it gave peace amont the five great powers in Italy.
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Nouveaux Riches
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Newly Rich
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David Herlihy
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a historian
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Humanism
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an educational and cultural program based on the study of ancient Greek and Roman literature. Renaissance humanists did not subordinate the classics to the requirements of Christian doctrines.
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Petrarch
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an early humanist who advanced humanist learning by learning Greek.
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Boccaccio
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an early humanist. He carried the recovery of the classics futhre by making a systematic attemt to discover the classical roots of medieval Italian rhetoric
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Bartolommeo della Fonte
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a professor of rhetoric at Florence
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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wrote Oration on the Dignity of Man. Pico said man had the freedom to shape his own life.
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Magus
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the magician
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Francis Bacon
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an experimentalist
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Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton
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natural philosophers
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Lorenzo Valla
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He worte the Declamation Concerning the False Decretals of Constantine. He disproved the "Donation of Constantine. The "Donation of Constantine" was were popes derived their authority. Vall proved the document was forgery because some of the language it contained was unknown in Constantine's time
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Civic Humanism
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humanism put in the service of republican values
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Baldesar
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wrote The Book of The Courtier. It promoted the notiong that the ideal ruler should be universally talented and skillful.
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The Prince
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an advice book written by Niccolo Machiavelli. He said that the rulers could learn the art of appearance and cover-up
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Andrea del Verroccchio
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teacher to Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci
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excelled in a number of fields. He had tremendous skill in both science and art. His paintings include The Last Supper, Mona List and St. John the Baptist
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Medici pope Leo X
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Leonardo worked for him.
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Luca Pacioli
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the foremost Renasissance mathematician
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Cesare Borgia
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commander of the papal army
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Brethren of the Common Life
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a lay movement emphasizing education and practical piety
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Johann Gutenberg
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invented typing using metal.
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Vernacular
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rather than Latin
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Pluralistic Society
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values new ideas and a variety of opinions, even diferences of opinion
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Index of Prohibited Books
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books the Catholic church thought should be done away with
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Desiderius Erasmus
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wrote Praise of Folly and Colloquies. He was a Christian humanist who used the power of words to attack scholastic theology and clerical abuses and to promote his philosophy of Christ.
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Michel de Montaigne
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advanced a skepticism in which he maintained that one can know little or nothing with certainty. He advocated the acceptance of Christianity on faith. Wrote Essays
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Francois Rabelais
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He wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel. In this he celebrates earthly life. It's them is "Do What Thou Wilt"
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Cardinal Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros
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founded the University of Alcala which was for the instruction of the clergy. He sponsered and published the Complutensian Polygot Bible that had Hebrew, Latin, and Grekk texts in parallel columns. He sought to enligth the clergy
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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wrote Don Quixote. He satirized the ideals of knighthood and chivalry. Don Quixote roams the countryside looking for romance and an opportunity to prove his knightly worth. His servant is Sancho Panza. Panza points out the flaws of his master.
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Sir Thomas More
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the most influential humanist of the early English Renaissance. He wrote Utopia. He said that a in a society where everyone is entitled to get as much for themselves as they can, the majority of the wealth is placed in the hands of the small minority
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Cardinal Wolsey
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was chancellor
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William Shakespeare
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one of the world's greatest playwrights
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Giotto
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a Renaissance painter
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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did Renaissance architecture
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Donatello
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scuplted the bronze David
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Siena
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works include Saint Anthony Tempted by the Devil in the Form of a Woman
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Pietro Perugino
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did a fresco called The Delivery of the Keys
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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a painter, sculptuer, writer, and architectuer. He pianted the Cration of Adam on the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel
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Titian
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a Venetian artist.
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Chiaroscuro
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alternating areas of light and dark
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Pieter Brueghel the Elder
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painted the Hunters in the Snow
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Botticelli
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an Italian painter
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Raphael
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a painter and architect from Italy
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