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Renaissance
Term | Definition |
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Absolute Power | Having complete power |
Humanism | Focus on human beings, human potential, and achievements |
Disseminate | scatter widely |
Secular | having nothing to do with religion; dealing with worldly affairs |
Renaissance | time period having an explosion of creativity in Europe; rebirth; revival 100 AD-1600 AD |
Treatise | Formal account in writing dealing with a subject systematically; such as a guidebook |
Moveable type | blocks of metal or wood each with a single character that can be arranged for printing |
Sonnet | 14 line poem |
Patron | a person who supports, or champions a cause |
Usury | lending money at an illegal interest rate |
Republic | Government where the power is in the hands of the representatives that are elected |
City-state | Independent city and its surrounding area |
Sir Thomas More | Wrote "Utopia"; combined learning with Christian piety |
Erasmus | Wrote "The Praise of Folly"; Dutch humanist interested in classical ideas and individualism |
Michelangelo | Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel; painter, sculpted the famous "David" masterpiece |
Leonardo da Vinci | Painted "Mona Lisa" and the "Last Supper"; example of a "Renassaince Man" because he was an artist, scholar, inventor, etc. |
Petrarch | Wrote sonnets; poet; most influential humanist |
Machiavelli | Wrote "The Prince" (1st modern work about government); philosopher |
Lorenzo (The Magnificent) Medici | Member of the powerful family that essentially ran Florence; was a patron of the arts |
Vernacular | everyday or native language |