Renaissance Flashcards
Who wrote the Decameron?
Boccaccio
Who wrote the Prince?
Machiavelli
What were the basic years of the Renaissance?
14th - 16th century
What did Durer do?
He mixed the Northern and Southern Renaissance and created Chad Jesus
Who commissioned the Sistine Chapel?
Pope Julius II
Who wrote Utopia?
Thomas More
What did Pico della Mirandola believe?
Man is between beast and angels
What did Savonarola do?
Took over Florence from the Medicis
What did Erasmus write?
Praise of Folly
What did Lorenzo Valla disprove of?
Donation of Constantine
Who wrote Inferno?
Dante
What is Virtu?
The ability of the leader
What countries fought over Italy ?
France and Spain
What skill did Lorenzo Valla have to contradict the Donation of Costantine?
He could analyze the recent and ancient Greek texts to see which were official for use of the church.
Who wrote the Courtier?
Baldassare Castiligone
What did Machiovelli’s book The Prince talk about?
How to have the most power as a ruler; fear over love
What is “naturalism?”
A style that portrayed the world as it was, not symbolic figures
Who painted The School of Athens?
Raphael
Why did Henry VII become head of the church of England?
He wanted more power as king, and he also wanted to divorce his first wife.
What act made it illegal to refuse to recognize the church of England as the official state church?
Treason Act
Elizabeth I supported which religion?
The church of England (Anglican)
What was the Act of Uniformity?
Citizens must attend a church service once a week or pay a fine
What was the Concordat of Bologna?
An agreement between Francis I and Pope Leo 10th: the church had the right to collect income from the French catholic church, and Francis had the right to appoint church officials.
What was the Peace of Augsburg?
Gave individual rulers in the Holy Roman empire the right to decide whether the subjects would be Catholic or Lutheran
Who was the Fugger family?
Powerful family in Augsburg, Germany, bankers in trade, had lots of power similar to the Medicis
What did Jean Bodin believe?
He believed the state should be ruled by the monarch and divine right
What is Lorenzo Medici known for?
Being a large patron of the arts
What was the Peace of Lodi?
resulted in a balance of power and peace between Milan, Florence, and
Naples that lasted until the French invasions of the 1490s
What did Charles V do?
Sacked Rome
Who was the first to use the term “humanism?”
Leonardo Bruni
What did PIco de Mirandola write?
Oration on the Dignity of Man
Who sculpted the bronze doors of the Florentine Baptistery?
Ghiberti
“___ layed the egg that Luther hatched”
Erasmus
Alofini and his wife was painted by…
Jan Van Eyck
What did Christine de PIsan write?
The city of ladies
Isabella d’Este
“first lady of the renaissance”, set an example for breaking away from traditional womanly standards
What is a commune?
sworn associations of free men in Italian cities led by merchant guilds
What was the condttierei?
Military leaders hired to maintain order and power in cities
Who started the “bonfire of vanities?”
Savonarola
Who’s lectures became known as the Platonic Academy?
Marcilio Fincino
