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APEURO
chapter 10
Question | Answer |
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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 |
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 |