Ap European: Renaissance
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- Lorenzo de Medici
- Lorenzo de Medici was an Italian statesman and ruler of the Florentine republic during the Italian Renaissance. His death marked the end of the Golden Age.
- Florence
- Scholars tend to agree that the first artistic and literary manifestations of the Italian Renaissance appeared in Florence, which possessed enormous wealth despite geographical constraints.
- Patronage
- The act of supporting or favoring some person, group, or institution. A patronage system has different characteristics depending on the area in which it is practices. Generally it can be described as a system where someone in e powerful position offers handouts in return for support.
- Petrarch
- Italian scholar, poat and early humanist. Believed he was living at the start of a new age.
- Dante
- Dante called his work a "comedy" because he wrote it in Italian and in a different style from the "tragic" Latin.
- Divine Comedy
- The Divine Comedy, by Dante is an allegorical trilogy that described the realms of the next world: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in it, it portrays historical figures, comments on secular and ecclesiastical affairs, and draws on shcolastic philosophy.
- Boccacio
- Boccacio wrote the Decameron, decribes ambitious merchants, lecherous friars, and husbands, portray a frankly acquisitive, sensual, and worldly society.
- Humanism
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The term of Florentine rhetorician and historian Leonardo Bruni.
Humanists studied the Latin Classics to learn what they reveal about human nature. - Virtu
- Virtu is the moral excellence of a man or woman.
- Neoclassicism
- This was in the visual arts, literature, theature, music, and architecture. This was based on Greek Art and sculpture such as Rapheal, DaVinci, etc.