World History Flashcards
(20 cards)
Erasmus
Dutch humanist who was the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance, the first editor of the New Testament, and also an important figure in patristics and classical literature.
Petrarch
the father of both Humanism and the Renaissance, as well as being the poet laureate of Rome and a diplomat and ambassador to the surrounding areas.
Medici
an Italian banking family and political dynasty
Michelangelo
Michelangelo was known as a famous sculptor.
F. Rabelais
He is a famous author who is most known for publishing many famous works like the Gargantua-Pantagruel series.
Cicero
Cicero was a well known roman poet and philosopher.
Civic Humanism
A group of thinkers who emerged during the period of the Italian Renaissance.
Giotto di Bondonne
He was an Italian painter during the renaissance.
Florence
Florence is the capital of Italy, it is home to many renaissance pieces and history.
Byzantine
The Byzantine Empire was the eastern half of the Roman Empire.
Neo Platonism
A philosophical school of thought that first emerged and flourished in the Greco-Roman world.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was known for his expressive artwork.
Humanists
Humanists believe that human beings were not created, but instead evolved naturally.
Utopia
An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
John Tetzel
Johann Tetzel OP was a German Dominican friar and preacher.
Macchiavelli
Machiavelli was a 16th century Florentine philosopher known primarily for his political ideas.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote, 17th-century Spanish literary character, the protagonist of the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
Baldasarre Castiglione
Baldassare Castiglione was an Italian courtier, diplomat, and writer best known for his dialogue Il libro del cortegiano.
Scholasticism
Scholasticism was a medieval school of philosophy.
