Unit 1: Renaissance and Exploration Flashcards
Italian poet and humanist scholar, discovered work by Cicero
Petrarch
Italian humanist and philologist proved Donation of Constantine was a fake
Lorenzo Valla
Italian humanist, historian and leader of Florence. Prompted civic humanism.
Leonardo Bruni
Italian humanist, historian and secular political theorist (The Prince)
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian humanist whose work outlined the ideal Renaissance courtier (Book of the Courtier)
Baldassare Castiglione
Italian humanist who promoted individualism (Oration on Dignity of Man)
Pico della Mirandola
Dutch Chrisitan humanist who criticised corruption in Church and State with Adages and challenged Church authority
with new latin bible translation.
Erasmus
English Christian humanist who corresponded with Erasmus, wrote Utopia and opposed the Reformation in England
Thomas Moore
German craftsman who developed a process of making movable type and the printing press
Guthenberg
Known as the ‘Warrior Pope’, he enlarged the Vatican states and was a patron to Michelangelo
Pope Julius II
New monarch who defeated most powerful and independent of French nobles Charles the Bold of Burgundy
Louis XI of France
New monarch who continued the sale of office to raise revenue, increased state bureaucracy and made
Concordat of Bologna with pope.
Francis I
New monarch victor in War of the Roses and first Tudor monarch. Increased the power of the English
monarchy by outlawing private armies and careful use of government finance.
Henry VII of England
New monarch, broke with the authority of the pope to empower himself to become head of Church in
England. Closed monasteries of England.
Henry VIII of England
New monarchs in Spain. Supported by the powerful Hermandad of cities and towns.
Ended religious toleration, expelled Jews and Muslims, established Spanish Inquisition.
Isabella of Castile+Ferdinand of Aragon