Chapter 2: Italian Renaissance Flashcards
How did Italian States prosper?
through manufacturing, trade, and banking
Florence
major center of handicraft industry
center of banking
independent republic ruled by small oligarchy
Where did the Medicis dominate?
Florence
Milan
important in overland trade
How did Milan gain wealth in trade?
agriculture and industry, especially producing silk and armor
Visconti Family
of Milan; further developed commercial center
oligarchy
ruling by a small family, etc
What was Venice?
an oligarchy comprised of the Great Council (with a duke, chief executive of Venice, for a lifetime term)
Which 2 people reestablished the papal control over Rome and the Papal States of central Italy?
Pope Martin V and Pope Eugenius IV (his predecessor); they began involving themselves in secular developments
Pope Nicholas V
served Medici family as a librarian; established the Vatican Library
Pope Leo X
A Medici
used papal money to help his family in the domestic and external struggles of Florence
was pope at the start of Luther’s reforms
3 Major Tuscan Triumvirate writers
Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio
Dante
write of ther Middl eAges
1st author of Italian Renaissance
Divine Comedy (epic poem in italian) talking about Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise
Petrarch
love lyrics
developed the sonnet
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Boccaccio
Decameron- collection of witty and often bawdy tales told over 10 days by 10 young people fleeing Florence during Black Death
