Chap 29 Vocab
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- Medici family
- Medici family wealthy banking Florentine family; patron to the arts
- Donatello
- Native Florentine sculptor; lifelike, mood,personality in his works
- Arno River
- The Arno River river runs through Florenc;it was important for trade and commercee
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- Niccolo Machiavelli Florentine historian and statesman; "The Prince"; organizer of defense and diplomat
- The Statue of David
- The Statue of David marble statue by Michelangelo; expresses concentration, tension, and humanist ideas
- Dante Alighieri
- Native Florentine poet; author of "Divine Comedy"
- Divine Comedy
- a poem describing journey through afterlife; Dante's most famous work
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Leonardo da Vinci artist, scientist, inventor; studied various topics including anatomy and engineering
- Girolamo Cardano
- Girolamo Cardano studied probability; solved algebraic equations
- Florence
- Italian city-state located on the Arno River
- Lorenzo the Magnificent
- Lorenzo the Magnificent ruled Florence for 20+ years; Medici ruler; patron
- Brunelleschi
- inventor of the hoist; arcitect who engineered the Santa Maria del Fiore