Quiz 14

Question 1

Which group of scholars wanted to get away from “glosses” and go back to originals the humanists or the scholastics?

Answer 1

the humanists

Question 2

John Argyropoulos was lecturing on Greek language and literature in Florence by 1459. Who became his famous student?

Answer 2

Marsilio Ficino

Question 3

T/F: By the middle of the 15th century almost all the major manuscripts of antiquity were available to scholars.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

T/F: According to Alberti, we have as much to learn from inelegent writers as from great ones

Answer 4

False

Question 5

According to Alberti, what use should we make of money?

Answer 5

noble projects

Question 6

In what year did Constantinople fall to the Ottoman turks?

Answer 6

1453

Question 7

What did Ficino found in Florence (financed by Cosimo in 1462)?

Answer 7

The Platonic Academy

Question 8

By what is spiritual love inspired?

Answer 8

Physical Beauty

Question 9

T/F: Pico’s concept of truth was dramatically different from our own modern pluralistic outlook

Answer 9

True

Question 10

T/F: Pico says tht man is a being deserving of all admiration

Answer 10

True

Question 11

T/F: According to Pico, God created man without a defined or restricted nature

Answer 11

True

Question 12

T/F: According to Pico, spiritual intelligence requires freedom from the body

Answer 12

False

Question 13

T/F: According to Pico, people can and do descend to the lower brutish forms of life

Answer 13

True

Question 14

According to Pico, what will humans reveal themselves to be if they are intellectual

Answer 14

angel and god like

Question 15

What are Castiglione’s dates?

Answer 15

1478-1529

Question 16

The ideal courtier is described in terms of l’uomo universale. How’s this translated?

Answer 16

the well rounded person

Question 17

The courtier is a man of many talents, all of which should be displayed with sprezzatura. Translate.

Answer 17

nonchalance and grace

Question 18

T/F: Castiglione illustrates the modern interest in probing the intrinsic moral values in human action

Answer 18

False

Question 19

What does the first speaker say is “the principal and true proffession of a courtier”?

Answer 19

that of arms

Question 20

Speaker 2 desrcibes the purpose of practice. How then should “what is said and done” appear?

Answer 20

with out effort

Question 21

Which two languages should a coutier learn?

Answer 21

Latin and Greek

Question 22

T/F: Beauty is more necessary for a woman than a courtier

Answer 22

True

Question 23

About what should a lady be “cautious”?

Answer 23

offending men

Question 24

How did women often come into control of large fortunes and lucrative businesses?

Answer 24

inheritance from mairrage

Question 25

According to Laura Cereta, what does the acquisition of knowledge require?

Answer 25

diligence

Question 26

T/F: Marinella maintains that women are generally the equal of men

Answer 26

False

Question 27

According to Marinella, what is God’s special gift to women?

Answer 27

beauty

Question 28

T/F: According to Marinella, men should, indeed, try to embellish their beauty

Answer 28

False