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Cosimo de Medici - supported education and the arts, made many business
connections in Europe
Lorenzo Medici - gave power to the lower classes of Italy, but he let his family
business decline.
Savonorola - bonfire of Vanities and Ruled Florence STRICTLY, later exectued by
the Pope
Petrarch - coined the term renaissance, , (1304-1374) Father of the Renaissance.
He believed the first two centuries of the Roman Empire to represent the peak in
the development of human civilization.
Pico della Mirandola - Wrote On the Dignity of Man which stated that man was
made in the image of God before the fall and as Christ after the Resurrection. Man
is placed in-between beasts and the angels. He also believed that there is no limits
to what man can accomplish.
Lorenzo Valla - Wrote "On Pleasure" defended the senses of good
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Giovanni Bocaccio - Decameron, Federigo's Falcon, timelessness and university,
1300s, Humanism
Castiglione - Wrote "The Courtier" describing all of the major things that a man
must have in order to be a functioning societal person
Machiavellli - Wrote the Prince, a book about using politics as a science. "feared
rather than loved" and "fox and lion"
Desiderius Erasmus - Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading
Renaissance scholar of northern Europe, Dutch humanist and theologian who was
the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe although his criticisms of the
Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin
Luther. he wrote The Praise of Folly, worked for Frobein and translated the New
Testament from Greek to Latin(1466-1536)
Jan Van Eyck - Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of
painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441)
Thomas More - English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from
Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded, He was a English
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humanist that contributed to the world today by revealing the complexities of
man. He wrote Utopia, a book that represented a revolutionary view of society.
(p.437)
Jerome Bosch - He was a Flemish painter whose works display the confusion and
anguish of the end of the Middle Ages. Jerome Bosch frequently used religious
themes, colorful imagery, and grotesque fantasies in his works of art. (p.439)
New Monarchies - Historians' term for the monarchies in France, England, and
Spain from 1450 to 1600. The centralization of royal power was increasing within
more or less fixed territorial limits. (p. 414)
Thomas a' Kempis - German ecclesiastic (1380-1471), author of "the imitation of
christ"; early northern christian writer who challenged individuals to live a godly
life rather than focus just on knowledge, summarized philosophy of Brothers of
the Common Life in 'Imitation of Life', died in 1471, associated with Brethren of
the Common Life, He was the leader of the mystic group known as Modern
Devotion
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John Wycliffe - (c.1328-1384) Forerunner to the Reformation. Created English
Lollardy. Attacked the corruption of the clergy, and questioned the power of the
pope.
Martin Luther - Known by many as the creater or the reformation, he broke away
from the Catholic Church and then later began to question the popes role in the
church and the sale of indulgences.
Frederich the Wise of Saxony - Supporter of Marthin Luther, he hid him from the
Catholic Church when he refused to repent.
Charles V - This was the Holy Roman Emperor that called for the Diet of Worms.
He was a supporter of Catholicism and tried to crush the Reformation by use of
the Counter-Reformation
Anabaptists - A Protestant sect that believed only adults could make a free choice
regarding religion; they also advocated pacifism, separation of church and state,
and democratic church organization.
Zwingli - Leader of Swiss Reformation. Agreed to disagree with Luther about
communion. He thought it was only a symbol, and that it wasn't Christ's body or
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