Renaissance Thinkers

Renaissance Thinkers

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Period in Europe before the Renaissance where people's lives were run by feudalism, superstitions, and Divine Right?

• Humanism
• Renaissance
• Middle Ages
• Age of Discovery

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A period of rebirth and creativity in art, writing, and thought from about 1300 to 1600 A.D., beginning in Italy and eventually spreading throughout Europe.

• Renaissance
• Humanism
• arts
• patron

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What does the word "Renaissance" mean?

• Renewed
• Remade
• Rebuilt
• Rebirth

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The Renaissance begin in ____________

• Italy
• England
• China 
• France

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An Italian city-state and leading cultural center during the Renaissance.

• Florence
• city-state
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Brunelleschi

Renaissance recap

• A rebirth of classical Greek and Roman art, philosophy, and search for knowledge.

• Began in Italy, especially Florence, and then spread throughout Europe.

• Patronage system encouraged creation of art and literature, Medicis are famous patrons.

Humanism

• The belief in the basic abilities and goodness of humanity.

• The idea that people could work to understand the world, society, or anything they set their mind to.

• Stark contrast to Medieval thinking, relied on philosophies of earlier times. Especially in the idea that everyone should learn and know about the world.

Renaissance and Humanist Thinkers/Writers

• Dante

• Petrarch

• Erasmus

• Machiavelli

Petrarch

• Italian scholar, poet, and humanist

• Famous for coining the term "Renaissance"

• Famous for his romantic sonnets

Dante Alighieri

• Italian poet and writer

• Composed "The Divine Comedy," the most famous part being "The Inferno."

Niccolo Machiavelli

• Italian diplomat and philosopher

• Wrote "The Prince," a manual for politics and how to rule/govern.

• Considered the founder of modern political philosophy

Erasmus

• Dutch philosopher and thinker

• Translated many classic works from the Greek and Latin into common language.

• Wrote "The Praise of Folly," celebrating foolishness.

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A movement in Renaissance Europe, celebrating human potential and achievement and stressing the study of subjects such as history, grammar, literature, and philosophy.

• Renaissance

• Humanism

• arts

• patron

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Who wrote "Praise of Folly", a book that celebrated foolishness?

• Sir Thomas More
• Erasmus
• Machiavelli
• Da Vinci

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This Renaissance figure is famous for changing the way people viewed politics and government with his writing of books called The Prince and The Discourses. He is known as the 'father of modern politics.'

• William Shakespeare
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Niccolo Machiavelli
• Lorenzo Medici

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 The early leader of the Humanist movement, an Italian poet and scholar.  One of the first thinkers to stress the value of classical learning, teachings of Greece and Rome.

• Shakespeare
• Michelangelo
• Raphael
• Petrarch