Palmer section six - Renaissance in Italy ID Terms

quattrocento

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

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect, focused on anatomy

Castiglione

Wrote 'Book of the Courtier', a popular book on etiquette

Medici Family

Ruled over Florence for many years

Virtú

The quality of being a man; successful demonstration of human powers; shaping one's own destiny; someone who knew what he was doing

Michelangelo

Florentine sculptor and painter and architect, focused on religious imagery

Condottiene

leader in a band of mercenaries

Lorenzo Valla

Founder of textual criticisms, discovered that the donation of Constantine was fake

Petrarch

Father of Humanism; criticized law and religion for their scholasticism; writings convey contradictory attitudes of the Renaissance

Pico della Mirandola

Claimed he could summarize all of human knowledge in 900 thesis's

Christine de Pizan

One of the few female poets of her time; brought humanism to France

Machiavelli

Wanted Italians to fight for what they wanted in the government