Mid Term Exam Questions(Chapters 12 and 13) Flashcards
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The Italian Renaissance was primarily
a recovery of rebirth of antiquity and Greco Roman culture
The wealth of the northern Italian cities that funded the Renaissance was gained mostly from
trade
According to Jacob Burckhardt, the Renaissance in Italy represented
a distinct break from the Middle Ages and the true birth of a modern world
The family of merchants and bankers who dominated Florence during the high point of the Renaissance was the
Medici
What was the commercial and military league set up off the north coast of Germany?
Hanseatic League
Castaglione’s The Courtier was a
very popular handbook laying out the new skills in politics, the arts, and personal comportment
The achievements of the Italian Renaissance were the products of
an elite movement, involving small numbers of wealthy patrons, artists, and intellectuals
The Third Estate of the fifteenth century was
Overwhelmingly made up of peasants
Slavery in Renaissance Italy
saw slaves from Africa and Eastern Mediterranean used mostly as courtly domestic servants and as skilled workers
Which of the following statements best describes marriage in Renaissance Italy?
Marriages were usually arranged, to strengthen familial alliances
By the fifteenth century, Italy was
dominated by five central powers
Perhaps the most famous of Italian ruling women was
Isabella d’Este
Machiavelli’s The Prince advocates that a successful
ruler must
act without scruples for the good of the state
Italian Renaissance humanism in the early fifteenth century, above all else
was based on the study of the Greco-Roman
classics
- Who said, ‘‘Christ is my God; Cicero is the prince of
the language.’
Petrarch
The Corpus Hermeticum
contained writings on the occult as well as theological and philosophical speculations
Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Manstated that humans
could be whatever they chose or willed
The liberal education taught by Vittorino da Feltre
The liberal education taught by Vittorino da Feltre
Humanism’s main effect on the writing of history was
the secularization of historiography and the
explanation of change over time
The development of printing in the fifteenth century
ensured that literacy and new knowledge would
spread rapidly in European society
Italian artists in the fifteenth century began to
experiment in areas of perspective
Which pair of artists both sculpted a likeness of David?
Donatello and Michelangelo
The painter of the Rome’s Sistine Chapel ceiling was
Michelangelo
Who painted “The Last Supper”?
Leonardo
