Ch. 29 Vocab
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- Divine Comedy
- Long poem by Dante Alighieri, about a imaginary journey to places where Christians believed souls went in afterlife
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Artist, inventor, and scientist: wrote about geometry, sound, motion, engineering, and architecture; first person to draw maps from bird's eye view
- Brunelleschi
- Used math in architecture, invented hoists, built dome on Duomo di Santa Maria del Fiore
- Medici Family
- Ruled Florence during the Renaissance, became wealthy from banking, spent a lot of money on art, controlled Florence for about three centuries
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- Statesman and historian, organized city's defenses, wrote: The Prince
- Donatello
- Sculptor, used lifelike styles in sculpting, made statue of David
- Dante Alighieri
- Author, wrote Divine Comedy
- The Statue of David
- Originally by Donatello, but Michelangelo made a copy
- Arno River
- River with Ponte Vecchio Bridge on it, goes through Florence
- Lorenzo the Magnificent
- Powerful member of the Medicis, patron of art and scholarship, ruled florence for two years
- Girolamo Cardano
- Solved complex algebra equations, worked with probability
- Florence
- City in Italy, called the Cradle of the Renaissance, Medici family ruled Florence, famous for art and architecture