Italian Renaissance
When and Where did the Renaissance originate?
Who were the three primary writers during the Renaissance?
Who is Petrarch, Machiavelli, and Bruni.
What is an emphasis on regular human life and religious themes (mostly personal relationships with God)
Define Humanism.
Humanism is the study of the humanities (art, philosophy, history, etc.)
Mostly in northern Europe, thinkers began reading classical Christian texts. What were they?
What is the Bible and St. Augustine.
What was “reborn” during the Renaissance?
What is Greek and Roman Logical ideals about art, literature, etc.
How did education change?
What is the focus on literature, art, and classical texts instead of religion.
These two Christian humanists and their works embodied the movement, who are they and what are their works?
Who is Erasmus and Thomas More. What is Praise of Folly and Utopia.
This writers work stuck to the individual, non-heroic theme in his work The Decameron—a compilation of stories about several different people
Who is Giovanni Boccaccio?
Instead of focusing on pleasing the Church, the pope, and its traditions, these thinkers focused on...
What is an individual spiritual life and relationship with God.
What was venerated in the Middle Ages but rejected during the Renaissance?
What is the focus on God and Religion for answers about human life.
What did classical writing focus on?
Classical writing and education was based on being well-rounded in art, philosophy, science, and rhetoric - not just professional based.
Both of these men agreed Christianity should serve as a *Blank*- not a stern set of rules and traditions.
What is a guiding moral philosophy.
This writer dismissed the idea of perfect human heroes or Christian morality—instead, he focused on the moral issues of the individual in his sonnets (poems)
Who is Petrarch.
During the Middle Ages, Christianity had become highly dependent on these FOUR things...
What is the pope, and religious rituals, traditions, & relics.
How did Greco-Roman Logic get back into Europe?
What is through foreign invasions.
What did Petrarch write about and how was it groundbreaking?
What is he dismissed the idea of perfect human heroes or Christian morality—instead, he focused on the moral issues of the individual in his sonnets (poems).
Both Erasmus and More wrote about the topic of corruption in the Catholic Church, and highly criticized the ‘sale’ of salvation. What is this practice called?
What is the sale of Indulgences?
This thinker was a secularist who was an influential intellectual who believed the corrupt Church, the pope in particular, should not be involved in European politics
Who is Jean Bodin.
These thinkers and ideas began question the Church itself and its power, claiming the Church had...
What is drifted from the true intentions and beliefs of Christianity.
What were the two Italian city-states that were at the center of the Renaissance?
What are Florence and Venice.
What does the term Classics refer to?
What is the school subject that involves the study of ancient Greek and Roman literature, philosophy, and history.
Various answers.
What is the name of the movement that led to the questioning of the corrupt Church and emphasis on secular political life without Church interference spawned a new movement.
What is Civic Humanism.