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The Italian Renaissance

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Grandi   the class considered the "old rich" in Florence- nobles and merchants who traditionally ruled  
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Humanism   Philosophy stressing human dignity, individualism, and secular values  
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The de' Medici Family   Extremely wealthy patrons of the arts who ruled Italy through out the Renaissance  
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Francesco Petrarch   "father of humanism", 1307-1374, popular poet and philosopher of the time  
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Leonardo da Vinci   exhibited the Renaissance ideal of the universal person- painter, sculptor, mathematician, philosopher, scientist, engineer, inventor, etc.  
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Studia Humanitatis   a liberal arts program focusing on the study of grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, politics, and moral philosophy  
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Popolo Grosso   literally means "fat people"- the emerging new rich class in Florence that consisted of bankers, merchants, and guildmasters  
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Despotism   a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power- common in the city-states of Renaissance Italy  
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Dante Alighieri   1265-1321, pioneered many advances in the field of literature and Humanist philosophy  
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Giovanni Boccaccio   1313-1375, taught by Dante, Humanist leader and pioneer, famous for his Decameron  
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Mannerism   artistic style that developed around 1520 and is notable for it's intellectual sophistication and natural qualities  
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High Renaissance   1450-1527, period in which art and sculpture reached their full maturity  
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Civic Humanism   Humanist system in which public service and individual virtue were emphasized  
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