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Renaissance People

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Girolamo SavonrolaA Dominican friar, he predicted the French invasion at Florence and he attacked paganism and moral vice
CastiglioneHe wrote the Courtier-sought to train, discipline and fashion young men
MachiavelliWrote the Prince-born to a Tuscan family
Francesco Petrarchrealized something new was happening-A poet and humanist, he believed he was witnessing a new golden age
The BorgiasImportant Roman family from the Papal States
Hieronymus BoschA flemish painter, he used: religoius themes, and colorful imagery
Richard IIIHe worked to restore royal prestige and to cruch the power of the nobility
Henry VIIHe worked to restore royal prestige and to cruch the power of the nobility
Catherine of Aragondaughter of Fred & Isabella-she married Arthur
Joanna of CAstileMarried philip of Archbishop of France
Ghiberticonstructe bronze doors of the Baptistry at Florence
GiottoLed the way to use of realism-he treated the body in a new way
Donatelloa sculpto-he revived the classical figure with balance and self-awareness
Morewrote Utopia
John Coletinfluenced Erasmus's work
Pope Alexander VIhe reasserted papal authority
Francois Rabelaisa humanist, he wrote in a secular flavor-he wrote:"Gargantua, and Pantagruel"
Pico della Mirandolaa Florentine writer-he wrote "On the dignity of Man"
Boccacciohe wrote the Decameron
Pope Leo XHe found the French a dangerous enemy in a new alliance and called on the Spanich and Germans to expel the French from Italy
Erasmusa Dutch humanist-you should read the bible yourself
The Medicisa banking family $$$$$$
Cesare BorgiaThe hero of Machiavelli's the Prince-He was an aid to Pope Alexander VI militarily and politically
Leon Battista Albertia writer, architect, and mathemitician, "men can do all things if the will"
BruniA Florentine rhetorician and historian-he termed the Renaissance as "the new learning, and humanism"
Lorenzo VallaHe defended pleasures of the senses of the highest good-"the father of modern historical criticism-He wrote "on Pleasures"
BenvenutoAn Individualist sculptor
The Sforzasthis family harshly ruled the small Northern Italian citystates-Milan
Jan van Eycka Flemish painter-he considered artistic qual of Italian painters one of the earliest-used oil-based paints successfully


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