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People of the Renaissance (Chapter 13 pg. 413-447)
Lorenzo de Medici
Girolamo Savonrola
Charles V
Francesco Petrarch
Leonardo Bruni
Pico della Mirandolla
Lorenzo Valla
Giovanni Boccaccio
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
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Florentine rhetorician and historian who phrased the “new learning” of the Renaissance as
humanism.
The “Renaissance man” who was known for his genius as a painter, sculptor, and engineer.
His works included the Mona Lisa and The Last Super.
She claimed a woman’s inferiority was derived not from the divine order of things but from
women themselves who simply exist to adorn themselves.
His experimentation with movable type printing led to the publication of the first mass produced
bible, and stimulated the literacy of laypeople.
His writings included The Education of a Christian Prince and The Praise of Folly. He advocated
education as a means to reform, the key to moral and intellectual improvement.
He wrote On the Dignity of Man, which claimed that man’s place in the universe is somewhere
between the beasts and angels, but there are no limits to what he can do.
The author of The Courtier, a treatise which sought to train, discipline, and fashion the young man
into the courtly ideal, the gentleman.
Author of The Decameron, a book which described humans as acquisitive, sensual, and worldly
without the contempt of the medieval literature.
Flemish painter who was one of the first to use oil-based paints. His works included the Ghent
Altarpiece and the portrait Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride.
Author of The Book of the City of Ladies, she was a highly educated woman who wrote in French
about the role of women in the creation of stabilization of an elite court culture during the
political upheaval of the 100 Years’ War.
Like his father Cosimo, he ruled over the city of Florence as a Signori. He was an important patron
of the arts during the height of the Renaissance.
One of the most prolific artists of the Renaissance, his works included the statue of David, and
paintings The Last Judgment and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
His book The Prince shaped modern political thought, maintaining that the ruler should not be
concerned with the way things ought to be but with the way things actually are.
Dominican friar, whose fiery sermons between 1491 and 1494 in Florence attacked the moral vice
of the city under the undemocratic government of Lorenzo de’ Medici.
French humanist who wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel, a comic romance that served as a spoof
on contemporary French society and program for educational reform.
English author of Utopia, which described an idealistic society where business and property are
held in common. He suggested that the problems with society are caused by greed and the
improvement of the individual was to reform the institutions of society.
He is referred to as “the father of humanism,” as he drew the distinction of the re-birth of society
(Renaissance) from that of the “Dark Ages.”
His study On the False Donation of Constantine, questioned the papal jurisdiction over vast
territories of Western Europe by examining the authenticity of the text.
Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, who’s army sacked Rome in 1527 ending the Italian
Renaissance.
Under his leadership, the church became more secular in that it fostered rather than discouraged
the new worldly attitude.
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Baldassare Castiglione
Laura Cereta
Christine de Pisan
Niccolo Machiavelli
Johann Gutenberg
Pope Julius II
Desiderius Erasmus
Francois Rabelais
Jan van Eyck
Thomas More