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Renaissance   an intellectual and cultural “re-birth” from 1350-1600  
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Georgio Vasari   The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects; Saw his era as directly related to ancient Greece and Rome, NOT to “Dark Ages”  
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Petrarch   Renaissance intellectual that created term "Dark Ages"  
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Medici   ruling family of Florence  
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Renaissance individualism   Stressed personality, uniqueness, genius, full development of one’s talents, quest for glory  
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Renaissance humanism   studied classics to understand human nature and uniqueness of humans  
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Renaissance secularism   dominant ideals shifted toward “here and now” (often acquisition of material things)  
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Mannerism   Artistic style of distorted figures, confusing themes  
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On the Dignity of Man   Pico della Mirandola; man is special because God made him in His image  
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The Courtier   Castiglione; Ideal man is multi-lingual, educated in humanities, skilled in arts (a “Renaissance man”)  
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Donation of Constantine   Lorenzo Valla; used textual criticism to show Roman emperor did NOT turn western Roman empire over to pope in 4th century  
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The Prince   Machiavelli; How a ruler should gain, maintain, and increase POWER  
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The Last Supper   Leonardo da Vinci  
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Movable type   each letter was carved and re-arranged; perfected by Johann Gutenberg, Johann Fust, Peter Schoeffer  
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In Praise of Folly   Erasmus of Rotterdam; Criticized Church, said it had moved away from its original ideas  
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Utopia   Thomas More; Described perfect world where everyone was educated in classics and property did not exist; said key to reform was to reform things (property) that made people bad  
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civic humanism   idea that intellectuals should participate in government and promote participation of others  
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New Monarchies   term for strong, centralized monarchies that developed after 1450  
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