Unit 1 Euro People

Lorenzo Valla

looked at Latin differences in different centuries

Machiavelli

says prince must maintain power at all costs

Castiglione

defined Renaissance man

Raphael

painted School of Athens which was commissioned by Pope Julius II

Mirandola

unlimited human potential

Erasmus

leaders should rule by morality, criticized hierarchy

Jan Huss

against the pope

John Wycliffe

believed everyone needed the Bible

Henry VII

tried to annul his wife because she didn’t have a boy, became head of the state church

Jean Bodin

first argued sovereignty which states that the state should rule justly

Jean Baptiste Colbert

wanted to create everything in France to reduce dependency

Vasco da Gama 

sailed from Europe to India