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The Origins
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| Considerable | In a large amount or number large enough to be noticeable or to have noticeable effects. |
| Rural | Relating to the countryside. |
| Create | To make something exist. |
| Proportion | Relation of parts within a whole. |
| Reform | To improve by making changes to something. |
| Reveal | To show something that was previously hidden. |
| Energy | Ability to be active and do work without becoming tired. |
| Divine | Having the qualities of God, or coming from God. |
| Mercantile | Means related to commerce or trade. |
| Patron | A patron is someone who gives money or other support to a person or group. |
| Lorenzo de' Medici | spent large sums of money on artistic and architectural. |
| Humanism | was a cultural movement of the Renaissance based on the study of classical works. |
| Secularism | this was the view that religion need not be the center of humans affairs. |
| Vernacular | or everyday spoken language of the people. |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | published in 1513 the prince was a highly influential work of political thought. |
| Individualism | this is the belief in the importance of the individual, as opposed to the larger community. |
| Thomas More | his best known work is a book entitled Utopia. |
| Utopia | to mean an imaginary ideal place. |
| Desiderius Erasmus | a Dutch scholar who embraced the moral teachings of Jesus. |
| Satire | is a piece of writing that attacks vice or folly through ridicule or sarcasm. |
| Francois Rabelais | was a monk doctor scholar and author. |
| Johann Gutenberg | invented movable metal type. |
| Censor | means to remove materials from published works or prevent their publication. |
| Linear Perspective | this is a mathematical system for representing three-dimensional space on a flat surface. |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Leonardo was one of the true geniuses of the Renaissance. |
| Michelangelo | he was a painter sculptor and architect as well as a great poet. |
| Dante Alighieri | had great impact. |
| William Shakespeare | had a great impact. |
| Miguel De Cervantes | had a great impact. |
| Sonnet | is a poem of fourteen lines with a fixed rhyming pattern. |