Europe

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renaissance

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the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.

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milan

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an industrial city in central Lombardy, in N Italy: cathedral.

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venice

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Italian venezia. a seaport in NE Italy , built on numerous small islands in the lagoon of venice.

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florence

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Italian firenze , a city in central Italy , on the Arno river : capital of the former grand duchy of Tuscany

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rome

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Harold (jacob) 1908-1993, U.S. lyricist and composer

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medici family

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an Italian banking family , political dynasty and later royal house that first began to gather prominence under cosmo de medici in the Republic of Florence during the first half of the 15th century.

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humanism

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a renaissance cultural movement that turned away from medieval scholastic ism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought

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machiavelli

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an Italian renaissance historian, politician, diplomat , philosopher, humanist , and writer.

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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

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Guttenberg

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the first in Europe to print using move able type and the first to use a press

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erasmus

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European Union student exchange programme established in 1987

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William Shakespeare

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an English poetb, playwright, and actor , widely regarded as the world’s pre-eminent dramatist

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sir Thomas more

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English lawyer,social philosopher, author, statesmen and noted renaissance humanist

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flemish

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

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Michelangelo

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Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the high renaissance who extern and unparalleled influence on the development of western art

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John van eyck

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an early Netherlands painter active in brutes and one of the most significant northern renaissance artists of the 15th century

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Albert durer

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a painter , printmaker, and theorist , of the German renaissance

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Fresco

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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.

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Indulgences

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the action or fact of indulging.

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Predestination

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as a doctrine in Christian theology) 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.

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Reformation

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Martin Lurther

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Martin Luther was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation.

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Henry viii

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Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was the first English King of Ireland, and continued the nominal claim by English monarchs to the Kingdom of France.

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John Calvin

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John (Jean Chauvin or Caulvin) 1509–64, French theologian and reformer in Switzerland: leader in the Protestant Reformation.

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Huguenots

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French Protestant of the 16th–17th centuries. Largely Calvinist, the Huguenots suffered severe persecution at the hands of the Catholic majority, and many thousands emigrated from France.

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Anglican

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of, relating to, or denoting the Church of England or any Church in communion with it.

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95 theses

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The Ninety-five Theses or Disputation on the Power of Indulgences are a list of propositions for an academic disputation written by Martin Luther in 1517

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Counter revolution

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anyone who opposes a revolution, particularly those who act after a revolution to try to overturn or reverse it, in full or in part