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HI Pp. 150-154
Ch. 12 QUIZ
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| one reformer and Roman priest who exposed hypocrisy in the Roman church | Jerome Savonarola |
| one of the few pieces of medieval lit that is still widely read; few poems have surpassed the beauty of this work | Divine Comedy of Dante |
| recognized as one of England's five greatest poets, wrote The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| one of the first great works of lit in the English language | The Canterbury Tales |
| subjects such as history, grammar, rhetoric, and poetry | Humanities |
| A great enthusiasm for classical Greek and Latin lot springing up in Italy was known as ________ . | Italian Renaissance |
| known as the "Father of Humanism", wrote "Letters to Ancient Authors" | Petrarch |
| the first great writer of prose in a modern language; best known for "The Decameron" | Boccaccio |
| the only book of lasting importance on politics; written in 1513 by Niccolò Machiavelli | "The Prince" |
| people who use their own money to support the arts | Patrons |
| famous for his painting "The Last Judgment" | Giotto |
| one who displays his talents in all fields | Renaissance man |
| a portrait of an unknown woman with a mysterious smile | Mona Lisa |
| may have been the greatest artist of the Renaissance, perhaps of all time; considered to be the greatest Italian lyric poet of the 16th century | Michelangelo |
| invented the movable-type printing press about 1440 | Johann Gutenberg |
| In what year did Gutenberg produce his first printed edition of the Vulgate Bible? This translation is called what? | Gutenberg Bible 1456 |
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