Renaissance Humanists Flashcards
Dante
The Divine Comedy; Purgatory; life/death and love and church etc
Boccaccio
Decameron; social commentary, a sympathetic look at human behavior
Petrarch
Letters to the Ancient Dead, Il Canzoniere; the father of humanism
Leonardo Bruni
‘humanitas’; basically created the idea of humanism and encouraged learning of the scholarly pursuits
Lorenzo Valla
Expose of the Donation of Constantine; basically exposed the fact that the churches lied to the people since they created this letter and it wasnt actually written by Constantine
Pico Della Mirandola
Oration on the dignity of man; statement on the nature of human kind, Platonic influence in teachings
Lorenzo de Medici/the Magnificent
peak Florentine Renaissance and was a big humanist
Machiovelli
The Prince; how its better to be feared then loved; be strong like lion and cunning like fox
Castigliore
The book of the Courtier; how courters, man and women, should be well-rounded (dancing, manners, charming, talented, housekeeping - women, education - men)
Christine de Pizan
The Treasure of the Cities of Ladies; early feminist who wrote about all the great women in history
Juan Luis Vives
modern psychology and belief of the soul; father of modern psychology
Sir thomas more
Utopia; a novel about an ideal society but in reality is a commentary about Renaissance life and how its not as perfect as it seems
Eramus
The Praise of Folly; religious but uses work and education to try and reform the church (used satire)
Cellini
did a lot of stuff but most importantly wrote the first autobiography; didnt fluf it or make it pretty but wrote about his actual life
The Gutenburg printing press
the first printing press; spread ideas and books, promoted education and secularism
