Italian term for fifteenth century; a period in which people built upon the framework left by the Middle Ages and extended into other fields of thought and expression
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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect, focused on anatomy
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Castiglione
Wrote 'Book of the Courtier', a popular book on etiquette
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Medici Family
Ruled over Florence for many years
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Virtú
The quality of being a man; successful demonstration of human powers; shaping one's own destiny; someone who knew what he was doing
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Michelangelo
Florentine sculptor and painter and architect, focused on religious imagery
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Condottiene
leader in a band of mercenaries
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Lorenzo Valla
Founder of textual criticisms, discovered that the donation of Constantine was fake
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Petrarch
Father of Humanism; criticized law and religion for their scholasticism; writings convey contradictory attitudes of the Renaissance
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Pico della Mirandola
Claimed he could summarize all of human knowledge in 900 thesis's
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Christine de Pizan
One of the few female poets of her time; brought humanism to France
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Machiavelli
Wanted Italians to fight for what they wanted in the government
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