Renaissance Reading Flashcards
Where did the Renaissance begin?
Northern Italy
Which cities were the centers of universities and schools?
Northern Italian cities
What did booming commerce affect?
Businesses could employ lots of people, and competition started
What happened in 1494?
French King Charles VIII invaded Italy
What was French King Charles VIII’s hope in invading Italy?
claiming the thrones of Milan and Naples
What did French King Charles VIII conquere?
Florence and Naples
Who did the Spanish join forces with?
Papacy, the Holy Roman Empire, Venice, and Milan
Why did the Spanish join forces?
To drive out the French
What happened in 1499?
French King Louis XII again invaded Italy
What happened in 1525?
Spanish troops defeated the French and drove them out of Italy
French King Louis XII
invaded Italy in 1499
What happened in 1527?
Spanish soldiers attacked Rome
Charles V, the Habsburg King
King of Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor
What did Charles V, the Habsburg King do?
Claimed Milan and Naples as his territory and appointed princes
What does Renaissance mean?
Rebirth
What does the Renaissance refer to?
Europe’s cultural rebirth
Renaissance
Time when changed from dark ages to times of rebirth and significance
Humanism
Study of men, main focus of renaissance leaders
Italian Francesco Petrarca
Believed that French scholasticism was too abstract.
Asceticism
severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.
Leon Alberdi
Civic engagement- serve good and the city-state