AP Euro Ch. 13 -- Renaissance

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