Chap 1 Vocab

Question 1

Patronage

Answer 1

Giving money to artists and writers to produce specific works

Question 2

Communes

Answer 2

Sworn associates of free men in Italian cities lead by merchant guilds that sought political and economic independence from local nobles

Question 3

Popolo

Answer 3

Disenfranchised common people in Italian cities who resented their exclusion from power

Question 4

Signori

Answer 4

Government by one man rule in Italian cities such as Milan

Question 5

Courts

Answer 5

Magnificent households and palaces where the signori and other rulers lived, conducted business, and supported the arts

Question 6

Humanism

Answer 6

A program of study designed by Italians that emphasized the critical study of latin and greek literature with the goal of understanding human nature

Question 7

Vitrù

Answer 7

The quality of being able to shape the world according to ones own will

Question 8

Christian humanists

Answer 8

Northern humanists that interpreted Italian ideas about and attitudes towards classical antiquity and humanism in terms of their own religion

Question 9

Debate about women

Answer 9

Debate among writers and thinkers about women’s qualities and their proper role in society

Question 10

New Christians

Answer 10

A term for Jews and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula who accepted Christianity; in many cases they included Christians whose families had converted centuries earlier

Question 11

Renaissance

Answer 11

A french word meaning “rebirth,” used to describe the rebirth of the culture of classical antiquity in Italy during the 14th -16th centuries