WHI.15 (2015) The Renaissance Vocab

Important Economic Concept of the Renaissance

Letters of credit served to expand the supply of money and speed up trade

Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince"

Supported absolute power of the ruler

Humanism

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

Petrarch

"Father of Humanism" in the Renaissance; writer, poet, and scholar of Greek and Roman literature

Creativity in the Renaissance

*Leonardo DaVinci - artist (Mona Lisa, The Last Supper)

*Michelangelo - artist (Sistine Chapel, the statue of David)

*Petrarch - poet

*Machiavelli - author ("The Prince")

*Erasmus - author ("The Praise of Folly")

*Sir Thomas More - author ("Utopia")

a machine for printing text or pictures from type or plates invented by Gutenberg; sped the productions of books which led to faster distribution of new ideas

Printing Press