Renaissance and Reformation Vocabulary

Italy's leading cultural center during the Renaissance; important for trade and commerce; dominated by Medici

• Athens, Greece

• Florence, Italy

• Naples, Italy

• Sparta Greece

This person was from Florence, Italy, and wrote "The Prince" that for a ruler it is better to be feared than loved

• Socrates

• John Calvin

• Machiavelli

• Leonard da Vinci

This person was an Italian painter, sculpter, engineer, scientist, and architect; the ideal "Renaissance Man". Painted the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Machiavelli

• Petrarch

• Dante

This is someone who is well-educated, artistic, inventive; someone who can do almost anything. Leonardo da Vinci was said to be one.

• Florence

  Man

• Spartan

• Mona Lisa

• Renaissance Man

This person lived between 1475-1564, was an Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, & architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of David.

• Erasmus

• Michelangelo

• Gutenburg

• Leonardo da Vinci

This is a philosophy that was developed during the Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studies classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements

• Reformation

• Hinduism

• Humanism

• Cultism

This person is the father of humanism; poet; invented the Italian sonnet

• Dante

• Martin Luther

• Jesuits

• Petrarch

This person lived 1265-1321, was an Italian poet and Renaissance writer. His greatest work is the Divine Comedy; wrote in the vernacular (common everyday speech or talk)

• Dante

• Petrarch

• Florence

• Calvinism

This person lived 1466?-1536, Dutch Christian Humanist; wrote Praise of Folly

• Florence

• Erasmus

• The Divine Comedy

6th Century series of religious actions which led to establishment of the Protestant churches and was led by Martin Luther.

• Gutenburg

• The Renaissance

• Protestant Reformation