Italian Renaissance Review

Father of Humanism

Petrarch

Wrote "The Prince", a book that recommended harsh and arbitrary rule for princes

Machiavelli

Book of Courtier

Castigalone

Oration on the Dignity of Man (Great Chain of Being)

Mirandola

aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century (Patrons of the arts)

Medici

Patrons of art (Cistene Chapel.)

Church

Mantua (woman patron of the arts)

D'Este

Florentine architect who built the Duomo using rediscovered knowledge.

Brunelleschi

Santa Maria Novella (geometric shapes)

Alberti

Villa Rotunda

Palladio

Most women were not affected, however, wealthy women were able to access more knowledge, they were still used as display pieces for men.

Woman during the Renaissance

a tranquil, secluded place, monastery

cloister

Boccaccio, While primarily a work of fiction, the Introduction to The Decameron has emerged as an important historical record of the physical, psychological, and social effects of the aggressive spread of the previously unknown Yersina pestis bacteria.

Decameron

Book by Dante Alighieri, describes soul's progression into heaven

Divine Comedy

Economic system during the Middle Ages that revolved around self-sufficient farming estates where lords and peasants shared the land.

Manorialism

A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to a king in return for loyalty and military service

Fuedalism

A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements

Humanism

The unique importance of each individual

Individualism

A doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations.

Secularism

Everyday language of ordinary people

Vernacular

Party (Primavera Botticelli)

Carnival

An Italian woman who lived in France and write books in vernacular defending women (The Book of the City of Ladies). Argued that women could attain learning as well as men if they could attend the same schools.

Pisan

15th century invention which revolutionized the ability to print information which in turn affected the speed of the spread of information itself. The near-simultaneous discovery of sea routes to the West (Christopher Columbus, 1492) and East (Vasco da Gama, 1498) and the subsequent establishment of trade links greatly facilitated the global spread of Gutenberg-style printing. Bypassed the church's monopoly on

Printing Press

Incorporated the new ideas of the Renaissance and were used to promote personal, political, and religious goals.

Purpose of art

Michelangelo

Pieta

Leonardo da Vinci

Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci

Last Supper

Raphael

School of Athens

Donatello

David, Brass

Michelangelo

David (marble)

This was a family of prominent bankers and merchants in Augsberg. They were members of the mercantile patriciate in Augsberg and were venture capitalists. They gained great status through wealth, and dominance similar to that of the Medicis. They were allies of the Habsburgs, which was profitable for both families.

Fuggers

This was a fraudulent Roman imperial edict which was supposedly written by Constantine the Great. In this edict, the Pope was given the power of civil authority. Later on during the Renaissance period, this edict was proven to be fabricated

Donation of Constantine

Women's roles didn't change much, increase in education for the wealthy, poor quality of life for the poor, and African slavery was introduced. But in general, not much changed.

Society