| A | B |
| Girolamo Savonrola | A Dominican friar, he predicted the French invasion at Florence and he attacked paganism and moral vice |
| Castiglione | He wrote the Courtier-sought to train, discipline and fashion young men |
| Machiavelli | Wrote the Prince-born to a Tuscan family |
| Francesco Petrarch | realized something new was happening-A poet and humanist, he believed he was witnessing a new golden age |
| The Borgias | Important Roman family from the Papal States |
| Hieronymus Bosch | A flemish painter, he used: religoius themes, and colorful imagery |
| Richard III | He worked to restore royal prestige and to cruch the power of the nobility |
| Henry VII | He worked to restore royal prestige and to cruch the power of the nobility |
| Catherine of Aragon | daughter of Fred & Isabella-she married Arthur |
| Joanna of CAstile | Married philip of Archbishop of France |
| Ghiberti | constructe bronze doors of the Baptistry at Florence |
| Giotto | Led the way to use of realism-he treated the body in a new way |
| Donatello | a sculpto-he revived the classical figure with balance and self-awareness |
| More | wrote Utopia |
| John Colet | influenced Erasmus's work |
| Pope Alexander VI | he reasserted papal authority |
| Francois Rabelais | a humanist, he wrote in a secular flavor-he wrote:"Gargantua, and Pantagruel" |
| Pico della Mirandola | a Florentine writer-he wrote "On the dignity of Man" |
| Boccaccio | he wrote the Decameron |
| Pope Leo X | He found the French a dangerous enemy in a new alliance and called on the Spanich and Germans to expel the French from Italy |
| Erasmus | a Dutch humanist-you should read the bible yourself |
| The Medicis | a banking family $$$$$$ |
| Cesare Borgia | The hero of Machiavelli's the Prince-He was an aid to Pope Alexander VI militarily and politically |
| Leon Battista Alberti | a writer, architect, and mathemitician, "men can do all things if the will" |
| Bruni | A Florentine rhetorician and historian-he termed the Renaissance as "the new learning, and humanism" |
| Lorenzo Valla | He defended pleasures of the senses of the highest good-"the father of modern historical criticism-He wrote "on Pleasures" |
| Benvenuto | An Individualist sculptor |
| The Sforzas | this family harshly ruled the small Northern Italian citystates-Milan |
| Jan van Eyck | a Flemish painter-he considered artistic qual of Italian painters one of the earliest-used oil-based paints successfully |