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| 30801002 | Alexander VI | corrupt Spanish pope; aided militarily and politically by his son Cesare Borgia, who was the hero of The Prince | |
| 30801003 | Lorenzo de Medici | a great banking family in Florence in the 15th century; ruled government from behind the scenes | |
| 30801004 | Leonardo da Vinci | artist who made religious paintings and sculptures like the Last Supper | |
| 30801005 | Botticelli | one of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance; developed a highly personal style; *The Birth of Venus* | |
| 30801006 | Castiglione | wrote *The Courtier* about education and manners and had a great influence; it said that an upper class, educated man should know many academic subjects and should be trained in music, dance, and art | |
| 30801007 | Brunelleschi | Italian architect; celebrated for work during Florentine Renaissance; anti-Gothic; *Foundling Hospital*, Florence | |
| 30801008 | Miguel de Cervantes | Spanish writer; *Don Quixote* | |
| 30801009 | Michelangelo Buonarroti | worked in Rome; painted the Sistine Chapel; sculpted statue of David | |
| 30801010 | Pico Della Mirandola | wrote *On the Dignity of Man* , which stated that man was made in the image of God before the fall and as Christ after the Resurrection; man is between beasts and angels; there is no limit to what man can accomplish | |
| 30801011 | Dante Alighieri | Italian poet; wrote *Inferno* and *Divine Comedy* | |
| 30801012 | Boccaccio | wrote the *Decameron*, which tells about ambitious merchants and portrays a sensual and worldly society | |
| 30801751 | Donatello | sculptor; probably exerted greates influence of any Florentine artist before Michelangelo; his statues expressed an appreciation of the incredible variety of human nature | |
| 30801752 | Erasmus | Dutch Humanist; religious education; wrote *Praise of Folly* | |
| 30801753 | Jacob Fugger | headed leading banking and trading house in 16th century Europe | |
| 30801754 | Giotto | Florentine painter who led the way in the use of realism | |
| 30801755 | Hans Holbein the Younger | painter noted for his portraits and religious paintings | |
| 30801756 | humanism | studied the Latin classics to learn what they reveal about human nature; emphasized human beings, their achievements, interests, and capabilities | |
| 30801757 | individualism | stressed personality, uniqueness, genius, and the fullest development of capabilities and talents | |
| 30801758 | Niccolo Machiavelli | wrote *The Prince* which contained a secular method of ruling a country; "End justifies the means." | |
| 30801759 | Montaigne | the finest representative of early modern skepticism; created a new genre, the essay | |
| 30801760 | Sir Thomas More | Englishman, lawyer, politician, Chancellor for Henry VIII; wrote *Utopia* which presented a revolutionary view of society; executed for not compromising his religious beliefs | |
| 30801761 | "New Monarchs" | monarchies that took measures to limit the power of the Roman Catholic Church within their countries | |
| 30801762 | Pazzi Conspiracy | conspiracy to overthrow the Medici's | |
| 30801763 | Petrarch | father of the Renaissance; believed the first two centuries of the Roman Empire to represent the peak in the development of human civilization | |
| 30801764 | quattrocento | the 1400's | |
| 30801765 | cinquecento | the 1500's | |
| 30801766 | Rabelais | French satirical author; *Gargantua* and *Pantagruel* | |
| 30801767 | "Renaissance Man" | a man that is multitalented and is well educated | |
| 30801768 | Revival of Antiquity | awakening from the dark ages and the focusing on the Roman's | |
| 30801769 | Friar Girolamo Savonarola | Dominican friar who attacked paganism and moral vice of Medici and Alexander VI; burned at the stake in Florence | |
| 30801770 | secularism | the belief in material things instead of religious things. | |
| 30801771 | Lorenzo Valla | wrote *On Pleasure* and *On False Donation of Constantine*; father of modern historical criticism | |
| 30801772 | vernacular | everyday language of a specific nation | |
| 30801773 | virtu | the striving for excellence; humanistic aspect of Renaissance |
