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Michaelangelo
The Borgia Family
Machiavelli
The Italian Wars
100

This colossal and very "manly" marble statue in Florence is sometimes considered the finest sculpture ever made.

the David

100
The Borgia family was disparaged justifiably for many reasons, but one reason which was hardly their fault was Italian prejudices against their ___________ heritage.

Spanish

100

In The Prince, Machiavelli famously asks and then answers the question "Is it better to be..."

Loved or Feared

100

Charles VIII, the king of ___________ , began the "Italian Wars" by his invasion of Italy in 1494

France

200

During his youth in Florence, Michelangelo attended several of this fiery preacher's sermons. Even decades after this his death, Michelangelo remarked that he could still hear his powerful words ringing in his ears. 

Savonarola

200

Lucretia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI, was married to 3 different husbands. When her first marriage was no longer politically useful, her father engineered an annulment from her husband, Giovanni Sforza, based upon the ludicrous grounds of _____________ . 

Impotence

200

Although Machiavelli used many historical examples both contemporary and ancient to back up his points in the Prince, he was most impressed with the career of his own contemporary, ___________ , a man he had personally interacted with.

Cesare Borgia

200
Probably the most powerful leader in Europe during the 16th century, this man was simultaneously Holy Roman Emperor, King of Spain and inheritor of a vast American empire, too. During the 1520s, he invaded Italy several times.

Charles V

300

When Pope _____ II asked Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the ____________ , a titanic struggle of personalities ensued between these two famously obstinate and proud men.

Julius, Sistine Chapel

300

In order to bring order to the Romagna region after his conquest, Cesare Borgia employed Ramiro de Lorca. Lorca proceeded to ___________ and then Borgia ____________ .

Brutally suppress all crime, killed him to deflect any notion that he was a harsh ruler

300

Machiavelli's writing was the product of his long career as an __________________ for the Florentine Republic, during which he encountered a plethora of political intrigue.

Ambassador

300

The 1527 Sack of Rome was particularly brutal due to the presence of thousands of German ______________ in the besieging imperial army.

Protestants

400

Michelangelo's sculpture Pieta (1499) depicts a an unrealistically young Virgin Mary and her grown son Jesus, in this moment

Mary holding his body after the Crucifixion 

400

Machiavelli noted that Cesare Borgia - knowing his father the pope would eventually die and invalidate the very origin of his own power - had prepared for every foreseeable possibility in regard to this inevitable event. When Alexander finally died, however, Cesare HAD NOT expected that he would be _____________ during the choosing of a new pope...

deathly ill himself
400

Machiavelli, although he had a begrudging respect for Savonarola's ability to manipulate crowds, easily identified the preacher's chief flaw. In comparing him with ancient Hebrew prophet Moses, he said successful prophets must have _________ which enables them on to _________ . Savonarola, by contrast, lacked this crucial asset and ended up burned at the stake.

armies, found nations

400
When Charles VIII entered Italy in 1494, his army was at the very cutting edge of military technology, particularly in regard to his __________________ .
Train of Artillery
500
In his later years, Michelangelo was made chief architect of THIS building in Rome, and most famously provided the design for its' _________ .

St. Peter's Basilica, Dome

500
The colonization of the Americas began during the reign of Alexander VI. In a famous Papal Bull, he drew a dividing line in South America between the empires of ___________ and ____________ in an attempt to facilitate the peaceful colonization of the continent. This division is still visible today with the linguistic, cultural and ethnic division of the Latin America.

Spain and Portugal

500

After the fall of the Florentine Republic in 1512, Machiavelli was suspected of conspiracy against the new Medici regime. He was tortured using Florence's famous strappado, a method in which the victim's _____________ . Despite several applications, Machiavelli did not break and was ultimately released. His Prince, written shortly thereafter was an attempt to get back into the Medici's good graces

wrists are tied up and he is suspended by a rope and then rapidly dropped 

500

Instead of fleeing Rome during the advent of Charles VIII - as many of the cardinals and other elites did - Pope Alexander VI famously stayed behind at the _______________ in Rome and charmed the somewhat gullible king with the still-mystical allure of papal power.

Castel St. Angelo