The Italian Renaissance: Review Sheet

Unit One The Italian Renaissance Review airplane 1. People to know -Savonarola-gained power in Florence in 1494. Exercised strict rule until overthrown in 1498 -Julius II-The state of warrior Pope. Led armies against the french and Venetians -Tudors ( wherefore powerful? )- Edward IV? Richard II? Henry VII. Used Star Chamber against nobles and Henry VII rebuilt monarchy -Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile (Inquisition why? )-Marriage created union of Spain. Completed Reconquista and Inquisition? anti-Semitism -Charles V/Hapsburg- Holy popish Emperor. 1521 Habsburg-Valois Wars?Battlefield was often Italy -Mirandola- oration of the Dignity of Man -Renaissance popes- Became increasingly secular . Nicholas V? Pius II ? Sixtus IV? Alexander Vi? Julius II? Leo X 2. Vocabulary converses, hermanades, Renaissance, oligarchies, signori, commune, popolo (what did they want? /what was their condition? ), humanism, secularism, individualism, Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, infanticid e/foundling hospitals, Medici Family (how they got their wealth), Quattrocento 3. finesse How artists were viewed, how they viewed medieval past, Michelangelo, Ghiberti, Raphael, Da Vinci, patrons (why support artists? , Brunelleschi (Dome of St. Peters), Jan Van Eyck 4. Printing Press changes it brought, when? Who? 5. New Monarchs Who support? Who resisted? , Charles VII of France centralizing efforts, tactics of the English kings (Henry VII and Henry VIII) to gain power, Star Chamber, Ferdinand and Isabella tactics, Iberian Peninsula, War of the Roses 6. Ideas View of rape in Renaissance view of black slaves women in the Renaissance/upper partition versus ordinary women source of wealth of Italian communes 7.Writers Castiglione (The Book of the Courtier), Machiavelli (The Prince/views), Dante (Divine Comedy), Petrarch, Laura Cereta (women ideas), Peter Paul Vergerio (education), Lorenzo Valla (textual criticism), Boccaccio (The Decameron), Erasmus (In Praise of Folly/ideas), 8. Union Renaissance Thomas More (Utopia/ideas), Christopher Marlowe, Nicholas Copernicus (Polish astronomer), How differ from Italian Renaissance? 9. Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Greek/Roman (Latin), individual city states (list), Florence, secular, civic affairs, curiosity, powerful families, manners/morals, how did it end? , crisis in the 14th C, wars