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The Renaissance
Mia Alatorre
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| considerable | in large amount of number; large enough to be noticeable |
| rual | relating to the county |
| 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 | to do work with out being tired |
| divine | having the qualities of god |
| mercantile | related to trade |
| patron | someone who gives money or other support to a person or group |
| lorenzo de' medici' | spent large sums of money |
| humanism | a cultural movement of the renaissance based on the study of classical works |
| secularism | the view that religion need to be the center of human affairs |
| vernacular | an every day spoken language of the people |
| niccolo machiavelli | he wrote the prince |
| individualism | the belief in the importance of the individual |
| thomas more | the first northern reformers |
| utopia | an imaginary ideal place |
| desiderius erasmus | a dutch scholar |
| satire | a piece of writing that that attacks vice |
| francisco rabelais | a monk a doctor a scholar and an author |
| johann gutenberg | invented movable metal type |
| censor | to remove material from published works |
| linear perspective | a mathematical system for representing 3 dimensional space on a flat surface |
| leonardo da Vinci | a true geniuses |
| michelangelo | a printer,sculptor, and architect |
| dante alighieri | important contributions |
| William shakespeare | important contributions |
| miguel de cervantes | important contributions |
| sonnet | poem of 14 lines |