chapter 9

Question 1

milan

Answer 1

an industrial city in central Lombardy, in N Italy

Question 2

venice

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a seaport in NE Italy on numerous small islands in the lagoon of venice

Question 3

florence

Answer 3

a city in central italy

Question 4

rome

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capital of italy

Question 5

medici family

Answer 5

richest family in europe

Question 6

humanism

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an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.

Question 7

machivelli

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an Italian Renaissance historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, and writer. He has often been called the founder of modern political science.

Question 8

perspective

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the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.

Question 9

gutenburg

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German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468) Synonyms: Gutenberg, Johannes Gutenberg Example of: pressman, printer. someone whose occupation is printing.

Question 10

eraumus

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Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (/ˌdɛzɪˈdɪəriəs ɪˈræzməs/; 28 October 1466 – 12 July 1536), known as Erasmus or Erasmus of Rotterdam, [note 1] was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian. Erasmus was a classical scholar and wrote in a pure Latin style.

Question 11

william shakespere

Answer 11

Shakespeare, William definition. An English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, generally considered the greatest writer in English.

Question 12

Sir thomas more

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Sir Thomas More (/ˈmɔːr/; 7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was also a councillor to Henry VIII, and Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to 16 May 1532.

Question 13

flemish

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the Dutch language as spoken in Flanders, one of the two official languages of Belgium.

Question 14

michelangelo

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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (Italian: [mikeˈlandʒelo ˈdi lodoˈviko buonaˈrɔti siˈmɔni]; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

Question 15

Jan van eyck

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Jan van Eyck (Dutch: [ˈjɑn fɑn ˈɛik]) (before c. 1390 – 9 July 1441) was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges and one of the most significant Northern Renaissance artists of the 15th century

Question 16

Albert durer

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Albrecht Dürer (/ˈdʊərər, ˈdjʊərər/; German: [ˈalbʁɛçt ˈdyːʁɐ]; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528) was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance.

Question 17

frensco

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a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colors penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries.

Question 18

indulgences

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The Catechism of the Catholic Church describes an indulgence as “a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister

Question 19

predestination

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the divine foreordaining of all that will happen, especially with regard to the salvation of some and not others. It has been particularly associated with the teachings of St. Augustine of Hippo and of Calvin.

Question 20

reformation

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a 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches.

Question 21

martin luther

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Luther, Martin definition. A sixteenth-century German religious leader; the founder of Protestantism. Luther, a priest of the Roman Catholic Church, began the Reformation by posting his Ninety-five Theses, which attacked the church for allowing the sale of indulgences.

Question 22

Henry viii

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Henry VIII definition. A king of England in the early sixteenth century. With the support of his Parliament, Henry established himself as head of the Christian Church in England, in place of the pope, after the pope refused to allow his marriage to Catherine of Aragon to be dissolved.

Question 23

john calvin

Answer 23

John (Jean Chauvin or Caulvin) 1509–64, French theologian and reformer in Switzerland: leader in the Protestant Reformation. 2. Melvin, 1911–97, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1961. 3. a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “bald.”.