Vocab chapter 10 Flashcards
Renaissance
Means rebirth in french
was a time of transition from medieval to modern times.
Italian city states
center of bankers, lots of trade, basically became the first renaissance INDEPENDENT states
despotism
main purpose was o maintain law and order they operated through mercenary armies, and obtained military brokers knows as condottieri
humanism
the scholarly study of the Latin and Greek Classics and of the acient norms and values.
Petrarch
considered the father of humanism
dante
Durante degli Alighieri, simply called Dante, was a major Italian poet of the late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Boccaccio,
Boccaccio
wealthy banker family in the italian states.
platonism
distinguished between an eternal sphere of being and the perishable world in which humans actually lived.
Humans as the only creatures in the world who possessed the freedom to be whatever they chose, able at will to rise to the height of angels or just as quickly to wallow with pigs.
civic humanism
describing apparent coalescence of humanism and civic reform. A basic humans should promote individual virtue and public service
vitrivian man
human body yields a circular outline, so too a square figure may be found from it. Painted by leonardo da vinci
leonardo da vinci
a true master of many skills, he exhibited the renaissance ideal of the universal person. Greatest painters of all time, advised italian princes, and french king Francis on military engineering. Advocate for scientific experimentation, dissected corpses to learn anatomy, self taught botanist.
rafael
Great kindness and a painter of great sensitivity, most famous for his tender madonnas and the great fresco in the Vatican, ‘ the School of Athens .
michelangelo
excelled in a variety of arts and crafts, ex. statue of David, the frescos in the Vatican sistine chapel,
charles the V111
invaded parts of Italy eventually lost them to the French warfare and revolts.
Pope Alexander
Pope Alexander VI, born Roderic Llançol i de Borja, was Pope from 11 August 1492 until his death. He is one of the most controversial of the Renaissance popes, partly because he acknowledged fathering several children by his mistresses
