Chapter 12 Vocabulary Flashcards

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Jacob Burckhardt

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Swiss historian who studied art and culture, crediting Italians with birth of the Renaissance. Wrote The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

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Hanseatic League

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Commercial and defensive alliance along coast of northern Europe, to protect economic privileges of coastal cities and states visited by merchants

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House of Medici

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Prominent banking family from the Republic of Florence, founded most successful European bank of the 15th century

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Second Estate

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A division of middle age society that included nobility like earls, counts, barons, dukes, and kings

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Baldassare Castiglione

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Italian writer who wrote The Book of the Courtier, Renaissance authority on courtly etiquette.

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The Book of the Courtier

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A popular handbook among aristocrats in Italy for many centuries, describing the attributes of the perfect courtier

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Third Estate

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A division of middle age society that included peasants, poor people, and slaves

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Renaissance slavery

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The purchase, ownership, or other trafficking of humans as property during the Renaissance

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dowry

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Payment or property that is brought to a marriage by the bride’s family to give to the groom’s

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Francisco Sforza

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Conquered Milan after the death of the last Visconti, established himself as duke of the city

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Cosimo de’Medici

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The first of the Medici political dynasty, he took control of the Republic of Florence and made it his oligarchy

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Milan

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a duchy located in what is now northwestern Italy, conquered by Francisco Sforza

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Venice

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a “republic” located in what is now northeastern Italy, began to conquer more land to expand its food and trade

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Florence

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an oligarchic “republic” located in what is now western Italy, conquered by Cosimo De’Medici

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Papal States

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a theocratic state controlled by the pope, located in what is now central Italy

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Naples

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a kingdom located in what is now southern Italy. Known for its weakness; France and Aragon fought to dominate it

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Urbino

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once a city-state in central Italy, became a center of culture and intellect

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L’umo universale

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a social ideal of the well-rounded personality or universal person

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Federigo da Montefeltro

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Ruler of Urbino, known as a great patron of Renaissance culture

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Battista Sforza

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Wife of Federigo da Montefeltro, she governed Urbino in her husband’s absence

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Isabella d’Este

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known as “the first lady of the world,” she was widely known for her wisdom, intellect, and clever negotiations

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balance of power

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concept designed to prevent the enlargement of one state at the expense of others

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Ludovico Sforza

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Milanese duke who invited French to intervene in Italian politics, allowing the French bring an army and occupy Naples

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Charles VII

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King of France who brought army and occupied Naples,Established the French royal army.

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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Florentine diplomat and Republican, sent into exile after Medici family returned to power, wrote The Prince

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The Prince

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book written by Niccolo Machiavelli, giving concrete expression to Renaissance political power

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humanism

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literary and linguistic movement in an attempt to revive classical Latin

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Marcilio Ficino

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Known for translating Plato and the exposition of Neoplatonism, founder of Florence’s Platonic Academy.

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hermeticism

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set of beliefs stressing astrology, alchemy, and magic as well as theological and philosophical speculations

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Johannes Gutenberg

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First European to use printing with movable metal type

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Donatello

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Italian sculptor, created life-size statue David, shown with the head of Goliath at his feet

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Raphael

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Italian painter and architect, known for his work School of Athens

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Michelangelo

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Italian painter, sculptor, and architect, known for painting the Sistine Chapel and creating the Statue of David, called Il Divino

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Ottoman Turks

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Advanced rapidly on Eastern Europe, capturing land and ending the Byzantine Empire, beginning their own empire. Eventually faced off against HRE

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Masaccio

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Artist whose frescoes in Florence is considered to be the first great masterpiece of Early Renaissance art, establishing a style that endured.

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John Wyclif

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Oxford theologian who was the first reformer to condemn Church corruption and call for popes to be striped of authority and power.

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Nepotism

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Derived from the Greek word for nephew, the word was coined to describe the awarding of offices, particularly Church commissions, to relatives

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Julius II

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Pope who led his army into battle and whose artistic patronage included raising money to build the new Saint Peter’s in Rome.

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Leonardo Bruni

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Advocate of Ciceronian civil humanism

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Henry VII

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Established the Court of the Star Chamber

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Leo X

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Medici pope who commissioned Raphael to paint frescoes in the Vatican.

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Entrepreneurs

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Rulers that transferred their titles to underground minerals and financiers as collateral for loans.

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Humanism

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An intellectual movement based on the study of the classical literary works of Greece and Rome

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Neo-Platonism

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The translation of Plato and the exposition of the Platonic

philosophy.

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Pantheism

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Seeing divinity embodied in all aspects of nature and in the heavenly bodies as well as in earthly objects.