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Italian Personalities Italian Renaissance Vocabulary Northern Renaissance Northern Personalities Renaissance

WORTH: What is Florence? This Italian city-state is considered the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance SUBJECT: Italian Renaissance MAIN

WORTH: Who were the Medici ( Cosimo and Lorenzo) to name a few? This was the patron family of bankers that financed many artists during the Italian Renaissance MAIN SUBJECT: Italian Renaissance

WORTH: Who was Filippo Bruneleschi? He was the architect for the largest dome built during the Renaissance, which is still one of the largest built with natural materials MAIN SUBJECT: Italian Renaissance

WORTH: What was Neo-Platonism? This was the philosophy that flourished in Florence and was espoused by Marsilio Ficino, which stated that humans when inspired can transcend all limitations and strive for perfection or the ideal MAIN SUBJECT: Italian Renaissance

WORTH: What The Prince, by Machiavelli? This was the book and political guide that stated, “It is better to be feared than loved” and “The end justifies the means” MAIN SUBJECT: Italian Renaissance

WORTH: Who was Ludovico il Moro of the Sforza family of Milan? He was the Italian despot who invited the French to invade Italy in order to defeat Naples and its allies in SUBJECT: Italian Personalities MAIN

WORTH: Who was Girolamo Savonarola? He was the radical Dominican monk who expelled the Medici family from Florence and welcomed the France and was eventually executed MAIN SUBJECT: Italian Personalities

WORTH: Who were Boccaccio and Petrarch? The death of these two writers in signified to many historians the start of the Italian Renaissance MAIN SUBJECT: Italian Personalities

WORTH: Who was Baldassare Castigione He authored the “ Book of the Courtier” which detailed the qualities of a Renaissance gentleman and lady MAIN SUBJECT: Italian Personalities

WORTH: Who was Giotto? He was the Italian painter who used lightness and darkness (chiaroscuro) to create depth in his paintings and bridged the gap between Medieval and Renaissance styles MAIN SUBJECT: Italian Personalities

WORTH: What are the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Northern France ( Benelux)? These would be the modern countries that made up the area of Flanders MAIN SUBJECT: Vocabulary-Terms

WORTH: Who were The Brothers of the Common Life? This was the lay movement based in the Netherlands that supported the spread of humanism and humanist ideals MAIN SUBJECT: Vocabulary-Terms

WORTH: Who was civic humanism? The term used to define the trend that Renaissance scholars should use their knowledge to help their communities and do what was good and right MAIN SUBJECT: Vocabulary-Terms

WORTH: What was the Donation of Constantine? The document exposed as a forgery by Lorenzo Valla, which supposedly gave the Papacy the lands of Italy to rule MAIN SUBJECT: Vocabulary-Terms

WORTH: What was mannerism? The Renaissance art that used emotion, passion and emphasized complexity and distortion as opposed to harmony, and the use of color MAIN SUBJECT: Vocabulary-Terms

WORTH: What was “Utopia”? This was the book written by Thomas More which describes an ideal society on an island in the Atlantic, where gold, silver and jewels have no value SUBJECT: Northern Renaissance MAIN

WORTH: Who were the Fuggers? This was the rich banking family from Augsburg who were patrons of the arts and financed Charles V’s bid to become the Holy Roman Emperor MAIN SUBJECT: Northern Renaissance

WORTH: What was Religious Mysticism This was a tendency during the Northern Renaissance towards a personal religious experience with God without the church espoused by thinkers like Thomas a Kempis MAIN SUBJECT: Northern Renaissance

WORTH: What was Gutenberg’s Printing Press? This device helped spread the diverse humanist ideas and messages of religious reform of the Northern Renaissance MAIN SUBJECT: Northern Renaissance

WORTH: What was Miguel Cervantes’ Don Quixote? This was the book written by a former Spanish soldier and slave ( captured by Barbary pirates) that poked fun at chivalry and revealed insights into Spanish life MAIN SUBJECT: Northern Renaissance

WORTH: Who was Desiderius Erasmus? He is considered the greatest of the Northern Humanists who influenced Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin SUBJECT: Northern Personalities MAIN

WORTH: Who was Albrecht Durer? He was the “German Leonardo” who studied in Italy and painted portraits, as well as several self portraits and created elaborate wood and copper prints MAIN SUBJECT: Northern Personalities

WORTH: Who was Johann Reuchlin? He was Europe’s foremost authority on Hebrew and Jewish teachings who was criticized by Catholic scholars but was defended by German Humanists MAIN SUBJECT: Northern Personalities

WORTH: Who was Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros? He was the Spanish Catholic cleric who used humanist ideas to reform Catholic Spain by creating the University at Alcala and writing the Complutensian Polyglot Bible MAIN SUBJECT: Northern Personalities

WORTH: Who was Rudolf Agricola? He was known as the father of German Humanism and returned from Italy and introduced Italian humanist ideas to Germany MAIN SUBJECT: Northern Personalities