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This Florentine artist used strong humanistic traits in his Birth of Venus.
Who is Sandro Botticelli?
This Florentine writer stated, “It is better to be feared than to be loved.”
Who is Niccolò Machiavelli?
In the 14th and 15th centuries this Tuscan city was generally the most powerful and wealthy of the Italian city-states.
What is
Florence?
This was the period in which two popes controlled the Catholic Church: one from Rome and the other from Avignon.
What is the Great Schism?
This strata of society led the Commercial Revolution with its entrepreneurialism and initiative.
What is the middle class (bourgeoisie)?
This 15th-century invention revolutionized communication and made new ideas much more widely available during the Renaissance.
What is the printing press (moveable type)?
This artist was one of the very first to paint human nudes in his masterpiece, The Expulsion of Adam and Eve (c. 1425)
Who is Masaccio?
The incredible eastern and northern gold doors of the Florentine Baptistery—the “gates of paradise”—were sculpted by this artist.
Who is Lorenzo Ghiberti?
This family ruled Florence from the mid-15th century onward while dominating banking.
What is the Medici family?
Fleas on black rats caused this period of relative unhealthiness.
What is the Black Death?
This term refers to the flow of resources and goods between the New World and Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This Czech follower of John Wyclif was burned at the stake for his views on the supremacy of scripture.
Who is
John Hus?
This humanistic Renaissance painting by Raphael has Plato and Aristotle at its center.
What is The School of Athens (1510-11)?
This proto-feminist published The Book of the City of Ladies in 1405.
Who is Christine de Pisan?
Popes ruled politically in these central Italian states.
What are the Papal States?
This period is so-called because the pope led the Church from Avignon, allegedly under the influence of French monarchs.
What is the “Babylonian Captivity?”
This term refers to the slow gradual inflation that occurred during the sixteenth century.
What is the “price revolution?”
This Church movement sought to create a body of cardinals that was more powerful than the pope.
What is the Conciliar Movement?
The Pietá, perhaps the most perfect sculpture of the Renaissance, was created by this Renaissance artist.
Who is Michelangelo?
This expert of Greek language and culture founded the Platonic Academy at the behest of Cosimo de’ Medici.
Who is Marsiglio Ficino?
This family dominated politics in Milan during the 15th century.
What is the Sforza family?
This guy wrote a masterpiece in the Italian Vernacular about the different levels of hell in the Divine Comedy.
Who is Dante Alighieri?
This business arrangement/innovation between 16th-century investors became the forerunner of the modern corporation.
What is the joint-stock company?
Machiavelli based The Prince on his observations of this powerful and cunning politician.
Who is Cesare Borgia?
This Low Country artist of the Northern Renaissance focused on the lives of ordinary people, such as in his Battle Between Carnival and Lent.
Who is Peter Brueghel the Elder?
These mercenary generals were hired by Italian city-states for purposes of war.
What are Condottieri?
This Mantuan ruler was the most powerful female ruler during the Renaissance.
Who is Isabella d’Este?
This Medieval philosophy of Thomas Aquinas sought to reconcile the science of Aristotle with the writings of the Church.
What is Scholasticism?
This Flemish city was Europe’s banking center during the sixteenth century.
What is Antwerp?
This new adjustable sail made navigation of the high seas much more feasible in the 16th century.
What is the lateen sail?