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| Petrarch | father of Italian Renaissance humanism, looked for forgotten Latin transcripts |
| dowry | sum of money given to wife's husband by wife's family when getting married |
| de Pizan | female who wrote using French vernacular, Wrote the Book of the city of Ladies in 1404. Said women could learn as well as men if they went to the same schools |
| renaissance | means rebirth (of Greek and Roman literature) from 1350-1600 |
| secular | worldly, no religion |
| Raphael | painted frescoes in Vatican Palace, painted Madonnas, painted for beauty |
| humanism | intellectual movement of the Renaissance, based on secularism & emphasis on the individual, based on study of classics of ancient Greece and Rome, studied grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral philosophy and history |
| Dante | wrote in Italian vernacular, wrote the Divine Comedy which is about a souls journey to salvation |
| Donatello | mostly worked with sculpture |
| Michelangelo | painter, sculptor, architect; painted the Sistine chapel in Rome |
| Chaucer | written in English vernacular, wrote the Canterbury Tales which is a collection of stories of a pilgrims journey |
| the Prince | written by Machiavelli, one of the most influential works on political power in the western world; about how to acquire and keep political power |
| urban society | based upon city states, 3 major city states were Milan, Venice, and Florence |
| mercenaries | soldiers who sold their services to the highest bidder |
| fresco | painting on fresh, wet plaster with water based paints, it gives paintings depth and seem to come alive |
| Leonardo de Vinci | mastered realistic painting, dissected human bodies to see how they worked; was a Renaissance man because he was a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and mathematician |
