Renaissance Flashcards
Quattrocento
Italian for 15th century
Renaissance
A period of artistic, cultural, and intellectual revival
Erasmus
Works banned by papal index
Thomas More
“Utopia” describes the ideal world
The Great Schism
Conflict of papacy Urban / Clement
The Babylonian Captivity
French Monarchy controls the Papacy
Conciliar movement
Councils with power over the Pope
Dante Alighieri
Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise
Boccaccio
“The Decameron” short stories to amuse
Vernacular
Literature written in native language
Individualism
Role of the Individual
Secularism
“Here and Now”
Humanism
“New Learning” of Latin Classics
Castiglione
“Book of the Courtier” qualities of a gentleman
Johann Gutenberg
Moveable type / Bible
War of the Roses
Houses of Landcaster and York
The Medeci
Florentine Family of wealth
Machiavelli
“The Prince” need for unity & a powerful ruler
John Wyclif
Lollards
Concordat of Bologna
French King controls church
Giorgio Vasari
Art historian
Rome
Prominent city in “High Renaissance”
Virtu
“To be whatever he wills”
Venice
Had Republican form of Government