Reading Notes and Vocabulary
Chapter 1, Section 1: The Italian Renaissance (pages 36-45)
Vocabulary (define or describe the following key terms & people)
Renaissance:
Humanism:
Secular:
Baldassare Castiglione:
Niccolo Machievelli:
Lorenzo de Medici:
Leonardo da Vinci:
Michelangelo Buonarroti:
Raphael:
Reading Notes and Vocabulary
Reading Notes (answer the following questions as you read this section)
What changes in society and in cities stimulated the beginning of the
Renaissance?
What were some important new ideas of the Renaissance?
How did these Renaissance ideas differ from those of the Church and people of
the Middle Ages?
What was Castiglione’s book The Courtier about and how did it influence society?
What was Machiavelli’s book The Prince about and how did it influence society?
What are the key characteristics of Italian Renaissance art & architecture?
What was the nature of the relationship between the Church and scientists of the
Renaissance?
What were patrons? How did artists contribute to the Renaissance?
Reading Notes and Vocabulary