Italian Renaissance - answer-the revival of ancient learning and the supplanting of traditional religious beliefs by new secular and scientific values that began in Italy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
Jacob Burckhardt - answer-Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860), argued t...
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Italian Renaissance - answer-the revival of ancient learning and the supplanting of traditional religious
beliefs by new secular and scientific values that began in Italy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
Jacob Burckhardt - answer-Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860), argued that the revival of
ancient learning in 14th and 15th century Italy gave rise to new secular and scientific values. He saw the
Renaissance as the birth of modernity.
City-States - answer-During the 14th and 15th century, these powerful entities emerged in Italy,
dominating the political and economic life of the surrounding countryside. They were not united, and
often fought with each other. Consisted of the Duchy of Milan, Republic of Genoa, Republic of Florence,
Republic of Venice, Papal States, ad the Kingdom of Naples.
Signori (Signoria) - answer-A council, first of six, and later of eight members, governed the city of
Florence. The men were chosen from the most powerful guilds, namely, those representing the major
clothing industries. Cosimo de Medici used this group to keep a firmer grip on his power.
Oligarchies - answer-rule of merchant aristocracies, controlled much of Italy by 1300
Commenda System - answer-Contract between merchant and
"merchant-adventurer" who agreed to take goods to
distant locations and return with the proceeds (for 1/3
of profits)
Condottieri - answer-Mercenary armies obtained through military brokers, controlled by despots
Republic of Florence - answer-A moderately large Italian city that was central to the Italian Renaissance
because of its gifted individuals; Dante, Pretrach, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Brunelleschi, Donatello,
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