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1
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When was federigo’s falcon written

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the renaissance times

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2
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what is the background of the people telling the stories

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they are people who fled from the city for ten days to escape the plauge

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what is the frame story

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People fled the city for ten days and tell many stories every day.

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what is the book called

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the decammeron

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what does decammeron mean

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ten days

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largesse

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generous gifts

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courtly

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dignified, polite, elegant

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sumptuous

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costly, lavish

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frugally

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thriftily, economically

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Monna

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lady

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taking…company

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a young woman of monna’s status would not go out by herself

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12
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deference

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courteous regard or respect

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13
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affably

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in a friendly manner

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14
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impertinence

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insolence, disrespect

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despondent

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dejected, hopeless

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16
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magnanimity

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noble generosity

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17
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What was the black death?

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the plague

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18
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Who wrote the Decameron?

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Giovanni Boccaccio

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19
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Where was Boccaccio from?

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Florence Italy

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20
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Decameron was written in what language

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florentine

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21
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how many years after the commedia was it written

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about 40

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22
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when was giovanni boccaccio born and when did he write the decameron

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14th centery

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23
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What is a frame story?

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a story within a story where the main narrative acts as the frame or unifying tale for a set of shorter stories.

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Example of a frame story

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1001 nights

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25
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Boccaccio was a huge fan of dante so much so that he wrote -, - on dante’s poetry, and added - to the title.

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he wrote a short life of dante, lectured on dante’s poetry, and added commedia to the title.

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26
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tell about the women and men in the decameron

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7 young ladies of wealth decide to go to their country estates for 2 weeks, and 3 men linked by kinship or affection join them.

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27
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Tell about the structure of the 2 weeks

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2 days are devoted to personal obligations, 2 to religious duties, leaving 10 days. 10 stories in 10 days = 100 stories.

28
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how many stories are there in the decameron

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100

29
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Tell about the daily routine

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in the morning and evening they take walks, sing, eat fine meals and drink fine wine. In between they tell the stories and have love figures.

30
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What does it mean to be king or queen for a day

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each charachter gets to be king or queen for a day and chose the theme of the story. On the fifth day the theme was to tell tales where lovers passed through didasters before having their love end in good fortune. Federigo’s Falcin was the 9th story on the fifth day

31
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Renaissance focouses on enjoyment this is seen in the

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animals and paradise of decameron

32
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Federigo is an

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aristocratic young male willing to give up all his wealth to woo Monna Giovanna

33
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Federigo and Monna were/were not real people

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were

34
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Novella

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a short story prose tale

35
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Falconry

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a sport popular among nobility in medieval and ren europe. used to hunt small birds, lower class used them for food not sport.

36
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What is Machiavelli’s full name

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Niccolo Machiavelli

37
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where was machiavelli born, what did he work as and how did he lose his job

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florence italy where he worked as a politician. He lost his post when the government was overthrown by medici family.

38
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What is the prince about

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pointers on how to stay in power

39
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it is desireable to be both loved and feared but it is better (safer) to be

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feared than loved

40
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never attempt to win by - what you can win by -

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force, deception

41
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a prince can always break

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his promises

42
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humans are corrupt and ruled by

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self-interest

43
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no ruler should keep his word when

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it is in his interest to break it

44
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The prince was called a - for -

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handbook for gangsters

45
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humanists called the prince immoral and it was added to the catholic

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list of banned books

46
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18th centery philosophers read the prince as

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satire

47
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Medici family

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family of merchant princes, unofficial rulers of florence

48
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Michiavelli wrote the prince partially in admiration of

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Cesare Borgia

49
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a politican should travel and send home

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descriptions of strengths and weaknesses of the governments and rulers he observed

50
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other books said how rulers should act but the prince says

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what rulers must do and act to survive in power

51
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princes need to defend the state from threats and know how to fight but

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be resonable

52
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Machiavelli saus the ends

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justifies the means

53
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Machiavellian means

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something is accomplished by dishonesty and trickery

54
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machiavelli advises rulers that it is better to handle money

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miserly than generously

55
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a man on his way to becoming a prince must be known for his - but once he achieves the position he should be - because a - ruler will become greedy and earn the hate of his subjects.

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liberality, miserly, liberal

56
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rapaciously

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greedily

57
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pusillanimous

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cowardly

58
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lascivious

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lustful

59
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niggardliness

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stinginess

60
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parsimony

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a tendency to be overcaring in spending

61
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pope julius II

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16th c pope restored papal states to the church and sponsored great ren artists like michelangelo and raphael

62
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king of france

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louis xii

63
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king of spain

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ferdinand ii who drove moors from spain and unified the country

64
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caesars

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julius caesar made himself dictator of the roman empire

65
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cyrus…alexander

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cyrus the great was the founder of the persian empire alexander the great conquered greece and much of asia

66
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Machiavelli - humanists

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opposes

67
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machiavelli uses - to prove his point

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historical figures from both recent and ancient times

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