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A northern Renaissance humanist from Flanders who wrote "The Praise of Folly" in which he poked fun at the clergy, scholars and merchants
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Erasmus
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Wrote "The Prince" which was a secular treatise on how to be a good ruler. The main message is "the ends justify the means"
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Machiavelli
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A northern Renaissance humanist from Flanders who wrote "The Praise of Folly" in which he poked fun at the clergy, scholars and merchants
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Wrote "The Prince" which was a secular treatise on how to be a good ruler. The main message is "the ends justify the means"
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The center of the Northern Renaissance:
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The focus on the individual is called:
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Northern humanist who wrote Utopia describing a perfect society and world, while also trying to point out that it would never be.
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Italian Artist, scientist, engineer, architect, and inventor. He is most well known for his painting of the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper"
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Three characteristics of Renaissance art:
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Invented the movable type printing press which allowed for mass production of books. The first mass published book was the bible.
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What is the name of Machiavelli's book on secular statecraft?
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A wealthy person who pays to have artists create works of art.
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Italian Renaissance artist who is most well know for his sculptures of the marble "David" and "La Pieta". He was also commissioned to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
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He is considered to be the "father of humanism". He wrote in prose and poetry about classical virtues. He wrote in Latin and his vernacular, Italian. Many of his sonnets were to a woman named Laura
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A prominent banking family in Florence who inadvertently ruled Florence. They were patrons to the arts, mostly Michelangelo.
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English playwright who wrote about the human condition in both tragedies and comedies
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The three most well known Italian city-states during the Renaissance.
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Was destroyed by the Ottoman Turks when they sacked Constantinople in 1453.
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Was the main economic effect of the Crusades.
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The term that means charging high interest rates.
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Non-religious
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Using these made record keeping much easier for banking.
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What is the nickname for Leonardo da Vinci?
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Opposed to use of credit and usury.
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What is Petrarch called?
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What the Renaissance means:
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The Italian Renaissance started in this city:
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To formally explain in writing the principles of a subject.