Renaissance Vocab flashcard

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an intellectual movement at the heat of the Renaissance that focused on education and the classics

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Humanism

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What does the word Renaissance mean?

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Rebirth

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A city in Tuscany region of northern Italy that was the center of the Italian Renaissance?

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Florence

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A wealthy, powerful, and influential family that lived and operated in the city of Florence, Italy during the Renaissance in the 13th century

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Medici Family

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Who lived in Florence and was an early Renaissance humanist, poet, and scholar, assembling a library of Greek and Roman manuscripts?

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Petrarch

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a person who provides financial support for the arts

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patron

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Born in Florence, he was a Renaissance political philosopher, statesman, and writer. His most famous work was The Prince.

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NiccolÒ Machiavelli

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Who invented the printing press with moveable type and printed the first edition of the Christian Bible around 1455?

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Johannes Gutenberg