Chapter 10 Reading Quiz Notes Flashcards
Venice
originally ruled by successful merchant oligarchy
Grandi
Old rich
-nobles and merchants who traditionally ruled venice
Popolo Grosse
Fat people
-newly rich merchant class
Popolo Minuto
little people
-lower class
Ciompi Revolt
uprising of the poor
-established chaotic 4 year reign
Cosimo de Medici
Florentine Banker and salesman who returned stability to Venice after the revolt
-controlled behind the scenes
Signora
6-8 member council that originally governed Venice
Lorenzo the Magnificent
Medici’s grandson
-ruled, totalitarian for the last quarter of 15th century
Podesta
despot
-maintained law and order
Condottieri
mercenary armies
Humanism
- birth of modernity
- catholics opposing Pagans
- Neutral form of historical scholarship
Paul O. Kristeller
scholar who said humanism was educational program
Florentine Leonardo Bruni
gave the name humanitas
Francesco Petrarch
father of humanism, wrote “Letters to the Ancient Dead:
Dante Alighier
wrote “vita Nuova” + “Divine Comedy”
-cornerstone of the Italian vernacular
Pietro Paolo Vergerio
author of the most influential Renaissance tract on Education
Guarino da Verona
rector of the new university of Ferrara
Christine de Pisan
Italian daughter of Physician and astrologer French King Charles V
- married @ 15
- widowed mother of 3 at 27
Manuel Chrysoloros
Invited from Constantinople to Promote Greek learning
Council of Ferrara
Florence
-negotiated the reunion of East and West churches