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APEURO
chapter 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Italian Renaissance | (1375-1527) rebirth in Italy-Treaty of Lodi, Medici, Visconti, League of Venice- Florence, Milan, Venice are major city-states |
| Treaty of Lodi | (1454-1455)alliance between Naples, Milan, and Florence and their rivals, Venice and the Papal States |
| Cosimo de Medici | wealthy Florentine manipualated elections and influenced Signoria, grandfather of Lorenzo the Magnificent |
| Lorenzo the Magnificent | totalitarian in Florence from 1478-92, grandson of Cosimo Medici |
| Piero de Medici | allied with Naples against Milan- exiled after giving Pisa and other Florentine possesion to Charles VIII of France |
| Signoria | local council of Florence |
| Visconti | rules Milan 1278-1450 without constraint or competition |
| Sforza | ruled after Visconti without constraint or competition- Ludovico il Moro |
| Ludovico il Moro | Sforza asked for French aid against Naples- resulted in French power over Florence |
| League of Venice | counter-alliance to protect Venice, Milan, Papal States, Maximilian I of France by Ferdinand of Aragon |
| Ferdinand and Isabella | married as two powers of Spain- mass conversion of Spain to catholicism and powerhouse that secured boarders |
| 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 |
| Baldassare Castiglione | author of Book of the Courtier- humanist |
| Florentine Platonic Academy | allowed humanists to devote time to studying Plato and the Neoplatonists |
| Francesco Petrarch | "father of humanism" |
| Northern Renaissance | spread by the French invasion of Italy and Italian scholars- more interested in religious reform |
| Desiderius Erasmus | northern humanist tried to unite classical and christian ideals of civic virtue in his writings |
| Christopher Columbus | discovered the Americas- landing in Cuba |
| Amerigo Vespucci | first to make it to India by sea, rounding the Cape of Good Hope |
| Ferdinand Magellan | his crews were the first to circumnavigate the world- he was murdered in the Philipines |