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chapter 10

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Italian Renaissance   (1375-1527) rebirth in Italy-Treaty of Lodi, Medici, Visconti, League of Venice- Florence, Milan, Venice are major city-states  
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Treaty of Lodi   (1454-1455)alliance between Naples, Milan, and Florence and their rivals, Venice and the Papal States  
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Cosimo de Medici   wealthy Florentine manipualated elections and influenced Signoria, grandfather of Lorenzo the Magnificent  
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Lorenzo the Magnificent   totalitarian in Florence from 1478-92, grandson of Cosimo Medici  
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Piero de Medici   allied with Naples against Milan- exiled after giving Pisa and other Florentine possesion to Charles VIII of France  
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Signoria   local council of Florence  
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Visconti   rules Milan 1278-1450 without constraint or competition  
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Sforza   ruled after Visconti without constraint or competition- Ludovico il Moro  
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Ludovico il Moro   Sforza asked for French aid against Naples- resulted in French power over Florence  
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League of Venice   counter-alliance to protect Venice, Milan, Papal States, Maximilian I of France by Ferdinand of Aragon  
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Ferdinand and Isabella   married as two powers of Spain- mass conversion of Spain to catholicism and powerhouse that secured boarders  
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Humanism   study of ideals expressed in Latin and Greek classics and works of antiquity- innovative educators who believed in well-rounded education- study included rhetoric, politics, moral philosophy, poetry, history, and and biblical and classical sources  
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Baldassare Castiglione   author of Book of the Courtier- humanist  
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Florentine Platonic Academy   allowed humanists to devote time to studying Plato and the Neoplatonists  
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Francesco Petrarch   "father of humanism"  
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Northern Renaissance   spread by the French invasion of Italy and Italian scholars- more interested in religious reform  
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Desiderius Erasmus   northern humanist tried to unite classical and christian ideals of civic virtue in his writings  
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Christopher Columbus   discovered the Americas- landing in Cuba  
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Amerigo Vespucci   first to make it to India by sea, rounding the Cape of Good Hope  
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Ferdinand Magellan   his crews were the first to circumnavigate the world- he was murdered in the Philipines  
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