The Prince/Federico's falcon

Question 1

When was federigo’s falcon written

Answer 1

the renaissance times

Question 2

what is the background of the people telling the stories

Answer 2

they are people who fled from the city for ten days to escape the plauge

Question 3

what is the frame story

Answer 3

People fled the city for ten days and tell many stories every day.

Question 4

what is the book called

Answer 4

the decammeron

Question 5

what does decammeron mean

Answer 5

ten days

Question 6

largesse

Answer 6

generous gifts

Question 7

courtly

Answer 7

dignified, polite, elegant

Question 8

sumptuous

Answer 8

costly, lavish

Question 9

frugally

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thriftily, economically

Question 10

Monna

Answer 10

lady

Question 11

taking…company

Answer 11

a young woman of monna’s status would not go out by herself

Question 12

deference

Answer 12

courteous regard or respect

Question 13

affably

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in a friendly manner

Question 14

impertinence

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insolence, disrespect

Question 15

despondent

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dejected, hopeless

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magnanimity

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noble generosity

Question 17

What was the black death?

Answer 17

the plague

Question 18

Who wrote the Decameron?

Answer 18

Giovanni Boccaccio

Question 19

Where was Boccaccio from?

Answer 19

Florence Italy

Question 20

Decameron was written in what language

Answer 20

florentine

Question 21

how many years after the commedia was it written

Answer 21

about 40

Question 22

when was giovanni boccaccio born and when did he write the decameron

Answer 22

14th centery

Question 23

What is a frame story?

Answer 23

a story within a story where the main narrative acts as the frame or unifying tale for a set of shorter stories.

Question 24

Example of a frame story

Answer 24

1001 nights

Question 25

Boccaccio was a huge fan of dante so much so that he wrote -, - on dante's poetry, and added - to the title.

Answer 25

he wrote a short life of dante, lectured on dante's poetry, and added commedia to the title.

Question 26

tell about the women and men in the decameron

Answer 26

7 young ladies of wealth decide to go to their country estates for 2 weeks, and 3 men linked by kinship or affection join them.

Question 27

Tell about the structure of the 2 weeks

Answer 27

2 days are devoted to personal obligations, 2 to religious duties, leaving 10 days. 10 stories in 10 days = 100 stories.

Question 28

how many stories are there in the decameron

Answer 28

100

Question 29

Tell about the daily routine

Answer 29

in the morning and evening they take walks, sing, eat fine meals and drink fine wine. In between they tell the stories and have love figures.

Question 30

What does it mean to be king or queen for a day

Answer 30

each charachter gets to be king or queen for a day and chose the theme of the story. On the fifth day the theme was to tell tales where lovers passed through didasters before having their love end in good fortune. Federigo's Falcin was the 9th story on the fifth day

Question 31

Renaissance focouses on enjoyment this is seen in the

Answer 31

animals and paradise of decameron

Question 32

Federigo is an

Answer 32

aristocratic young male willing to give up all his wealth to woo Monna Giovanna

Question 33

Federigo and Monna were/were not real people

Answer 33

were

Question 34

Novella

Answer 34

a short story prose tale

Question 35

Falconry

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a sport popular among nobility in medieval and ren europe. used to hunt small birds, lower class used them for food not sport.

Question 36

What is Machiavelli's full name

Answer 36

Niccolo Machiavelli

Question 37

where was machiavelli born, what did he work as and how did he lose his job

Answer 37

florence italy where he worked as a politician. He lost his post when the government was overthrown by medici family.

Question 38

What is the prince about

Answer 38

pointers on how to stay in power

Question 39

it is desireable to be both loved and feared but it is better (safer) to be

Answer 39

feared than loved

Question 40

never attempt to win by - what you can win by -

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force, deception

Question 41

a prince can always break

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his promises

Question 42

humans are corrupt and ruled by

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self-interest

Question 43

no ruler should keep his word when

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it is in his interest to break it

Question 44

The prince was called a - for -

Answer 44

handbook for gangsters

Question 45

humanists called the prince immoral and it was added to the catholic

Answer 45

list of banned books

Question 46

18th centery philosophers read the prince as

Answer 46

satire

Question 47

Medici family

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family of merchant princes, unofficial rulers of florence

Question 48

Michiavelli wrote the prince partially in admiration of

Answer 48

Cesare Borgia

Question 49

a politican should travel and send home

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descriptions of strengths and weaknesses of the governments and rulers he observed

Question 50

other books said how rulers should act but the prince says

Answer 50

what rulers must do and act to survive in power

Question 51

princes need to defend the state from threats and know how to fight but

Answer 51

be resonable

Question 52

Machiavelli saus the ends

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justifies the means

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Machiavellian means

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something is accomplished by dishonesty and trickery

Question 54

machiavelli advises rulers that it is better to handle money

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miserly than generously

Question 55

a man on his way to becoming a prince must be known for his - but once he achieves the position he should be - because a - ruler will become greedy and earn the hate of his subjects.

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liberality, miserly, liberal

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rapaciously

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greedily

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pusillanimous

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cowardly

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lascivious

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lustful

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niggardliness

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stinginess

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parsimony

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a tendency to be overcaring in spending

Question 61

pope julius II

Answer 61

16th c pope restored papal states to the church and sponsored great ren artists like michelangelo and raphael

Question 62

king of france

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louis xii

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king of spain

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ferdinand ii who drove moors from spain and unified the country

Question 64

caesars

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julius caesar made himself dictator of the roman empire

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cyrus...alexander

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cyrus the great was the founder of the persian empire alexander the great conquered greece and much of asia

Question 66

Machiavelli - humanists

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opposes

Question 67

machiavelli uses - to prove his point

Answer 67

historical figures from both recent and ancient times