Final

Question 1

Satirical short story about the King of Hell

Answer 1

Niccolo Maciavelli; Belfagor

Question 2

Book on the ideal way a courtier should act.

Answer 2

Baldesar Castilgione; Book of the Courtier

Question 3

Letter to Roman Cardinal; recounting a walk in Rome; Imitation of scholarship should be a father to son resemblence

Answer 3

Petrarch; Familiares

Question 4

Letter where the author describes his own life; the ancient past is better than the present

Answer 4

Petrarch; Letter to Posterity

Question 5

Poem about the authors first love; past gives meaning to the present

Answer 5

Petrarch; Canzoniere

Question 6

Dialogue about active participation in public life; awareness of living in a new age

Answer 6

Matteo Palmieri; The Dawn of Better Things

Question 7

Treatise on the cyclical nature of history; God created artists at the level of antiquity in the 13th century

Answer 7

Giorgio Vasari; Barbarism, Antiquity, Rebirth

Question 8

Letter describing the author finding a lost work of the Roman scholar Quintillian in Constance, Germany

Answer 8

Poggio Bracciolini; Poggius to Guarinus Veronensis

Question 9

Treatise on humanist education; 1. Good character 2. Liberal Studies 3. Physical development; Medieval Trivium and Quadrivium

Answer 9

Pier Paolo Vergerio; On Noble Customs and Liberal Studies of Adolescents

Question 10

Treatise on humanist education; literature is the foundation of greater things; shift away from the 7 pillars of the middle ages to the ‘humane letters’

Answer 10

Leonardo Bruni; The Study of Literature to Lady Battista

Question 11

‘Life of..’ on Dante and Petrarch; Dante is a model for being civically engaged (Soldier and Married)

Answer 11

Leonardo Bruni; Lives of Dante and Petrarch

Question 12

Dialogue on education; Experience should be the driving factor of education; Fortune is something that can be shaped by informed decisions

Answer 12

Leon Battista Alberti; Book of the Family

Question 13

Oration; there is a common truth that all cultures share

Answer 13

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; Oration on the Dignity of man

Question 14

Panegyric on the city of Florence; value of moderation

Answer 14

Leonardo Bruni; Panegyric of Florence

Question 15

Treatise on Florentine Government

Answer 15

Girolamo Savonarola; Treatise on Florentine Government

Question 16

Living an active life leads to pleasure

Answer 16

Gionnozzo Manetti; On the Dignity of Man

Question 17

Treatise on princely power; Imitation is human nature; Princes must combine knowledge-virtue-arms; Cesare Borgia is a good example of an exemplary prince

Answer 17

Niccolo Machiavell; The Prince

Question 18

Maxims; History is less important because of the chaos of the present; importance of discretion; serve one’s honor unselfishly

Answer 18

Francesco Guicciardini; Ricordi

Question 19

Author thought modern artists were inferior to ancient ones until he saw the Florentine dome

Answer 19

Leon Battista Alberti, Brunelleschi’s Dome

Question 20

Life of.. on Donatello and Brunelleschi; First hand study of antiquity

Answer 20

Antonio Manetti, Brunelleschi and Donatelo

Question 21

Life of…; Design is at the basis of all art

Answer 21

Giorgio Vasari, Lives of Famous Artists

Question 22

Dialogue; Eve was less responsible than Adam because of her weaker nature

Answer 22

Isotta Nogarola, Dialogue on the Equal or Unequal Sin of Adam and Eve

Question 23

Letter; nature imparts ability to learn on all human beings

Answer 23

Laura Cereta, Letters

Question 24

Letter; author did not know he encountered a new continent

Answer 24

Columbus, letters

Question 25

Letter; Author knew he encountered a new continent, was a humanist

Answer 25

Vespucci, letters