Renaissance overview duel

Petrarch His death marked the start of the renaissance. He was called the father of humanism.

Impacts of the printing press

Castiglione A long career as a diplomat for Milan. Wrote “the courtier” on how a gentleman should behave in court.

An emphasis on the public good

Secularism

Renaissance monarchies

Humanism A focus on the human body and human achievements.

French monarchy in the renaissance

Spanish monarchy in the renaissance

The prince Machiavelli wrote about how an effective ruler should behave: they should maintain order and stability, be feared but not hated.

Focused much more on realism as artists learned how to use perspective

Poco della Mirandola

New monarchies New technology made war more expensive and it required large centralized governments to afford it. The monarch’s gained power and the nobility lost it.

Beliefs on education in the renaissance Believed education should promote individual virtue and self sacrificing public service. Aka. Civic humanism

Leonardo Bruni First to coin the term “humanism”. First to divide history into 3 parts.

The printing press helped spread the ideas of the renaissance.

Petrarch

Castiglione

Beliefs on education in the renaissance Believed education should promote individual virtue and self sacrificing public service. Aka. Civic humanism

Humanism A focus on the human body and human achievements.

Spanish monarchy in the renaissance Isabella and Ferdinand conquered the Muslim state of Grenada, expelled Spanish Jews and tortured non-Catholics

Renaissance monarchies

The prince Machiavelli wrote about how an effective ruler should behave: they should maintain order and stability, be feared but not hated.

Civic humanism An emphasis on the public good

French monarchy in the renaissance The pope rented the power to appoint church officials in France to the king through the accordo di bologna

Secularism Separation of church and state.

Focused much more on realism as artists learned how to use perspective

New technology made war more expensive and it required large centralized governments to afford it. The monarch’s gained power and the nobility lost it.

He wrote the famous “oration on the dignity of man”, the manifesto of the renaissance. Humans are free to become whatever they want

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