HST 111 Week 3

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Papal States
Italian State (1/5)
Kingdom of Naples
Italian State (1/5)
1447
Death of last visconti Ruler of Milan year
Milan
Francesco Sforza captured __ state and became the duke
Visconti
Sforza and ____ created centralized territorial state out of Milan
Cosimo de' Medici
Republic of Florence ruler
1432
Year Cosimo de' Medici took control of Florence
Great Schism
Papal state cities became independent due to
Poverty striken
Kingdom of Naples
Ruling families
Independent city-states under rule of powerful:
1454
Peace of Lodi signed
Peace of Lodi
ended almost 50 years of war, led to 40 years of peace
Invasions
Italian balance of power encouraged
Ludovico Sforza
Duke of Milan, invited french to intervene in Italian politics
French King Charles VIII
Occupied Kingdom of Naples
Ferdinard of Aragon
Spanish ruler intervening when Italian states asked for help
15 year
Duration of struggle over Italy between French and Spanish
Fracis I
New French ruler continuing struggle over italy from 1510
Charles I
New Spanish ruler continuing struggle over italy from 1510
1527
Sack of Rome year
1870
Italians resisted unification until ___
Medieval Ambassador
Temporary position servant of Christendom
Renaissance Ambassador
Belonged to state, loyal to states political interests
1311-1447
Visconti rule over Milan
1450-1494
Sforza rule over Milan
1494
Beginning of Italian wars
1513
The Prince publication year
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince Author
Niccolo Machiavelli
Secretary to Florentine Council of Ten 4 years post Medici family expelled, exiled 1512 following Spanish Victory
1512
Year of Niccolo Machiavelli's expulsion
The Prince book
Contradicted ethical concens for Prince's political activity through perception of human nature
Studia Humanitatis
The studies of humanity
Petrarch, Francesco Petrarcha
Father of Italian Renaissance Humanism, lawyer, characterized middle ages as period of darkness due to mistakenly perceived dismissal of classical antiquity
Civic humanism
Florentine humanist movement tied to florentine spirit and pride
Cicero
Model for prose
Virgil
Model for poetry
Rebirth
Renaissance meaning
The Elegances of the Latin language
book examining use of classical latin
Leonardo Bruni
author of The Elegances of the Latin Language
15
Increasing interest in Plato began in the 2nd half of the _th C
Florentine Platonic Academy
Discussion group for the works of plato
Cosimo de'Medici
Sponser of Florentine Platonic Academy
Plant, human, god
Neoplatonic hierarchy of substances
Theory of spiritual love
All people bound and universe bound in common by love
Hermeticism
Manuscripts, view of endowed humans with divine power, chose to enter material world and can become sages or majo through purification of soul
Pantheism
Seeing divinity in nature
Liberal studies
Core of renaissance education
Concerning character
treatise on education by pietro paolo vergerio stressing liberal arts as key to freedom and potential
critical thining, miracles
Humanists secularized writing of history through _ and reducing role of _
1445-1450
Printing press european introduction
1455/6
First printed book
Realism
Renaissance art goal
Giotto
First realism pursuing artist
Masaccio
Second realism pursuing artist
Brancacci chapel Frescoes
First masterpiece of early renaissance art
Donato di Donatello
Renaissance sculture, copied statues of antiquity of rome and worked out of florence
Brunelleschi
Finished Duomo roof, friend of donatello
high renaissance
Advancing beyond realism, realistic portrayal of idead form
Rome
Artistic high renaissance marked by increasing importance of _ as new culural centre of italian renaissance
1480-1520
Final stage of renaissance art years
15
Artists reputation shifted from artisans to respectable creative genius by end of _th C
Dark age
Middle ages characterized as
Lack of classical culture
middle ages characterized as dark ages due to
commerce and politics
Northern italy prominent due to
Hansa
13th C North German commercial and military association
Lubeck
Leading city of hansa, major trade centre for Northern Europe
Hansa's monopoly
Timber, fish, grain, metal, honey, wine
Flanders
Southern outlet of Hansa, meeting place, economic crossroads
15 C
End of Hansa
competition
Reason Hansa ended
16 C
Italy didn't suffer economically until
Woolen
Depression effection Flanders and Northern Italy's __ industries
15 C
Florentine regained banking prominence in __
Medici family
Reason for Florentine regaining banking prominence
Medici family
bankers, cloth production, commerce, real estate, had controlling interests in other industries
Poor leadership and bad loans
Reason for Medici leadership decline
1494
Collapse of Medici Financial Edifice
2-3
% of population were nobles
Baldassare Castilione
Author of the Book of the Courtier
1528
The book of the courtier publishing year
85-90%
Percentage of population outside of Northern Italy and Flanders that were peasants and citizens
Serfdom
Agricultural workers bound to work land owned by landlord
Patricians
1st in urban chain, wealthy from trade, industry banking
Propertyless workers
3rd in urban chain, low wages or unemployed, poor QOL
Slaves
4th in urban chain
11 C
Slavery had mostly been eliminated from Europe by _____ until re-emergence
Italians
Slavery was reintroduced by __ post labour decrease due to deaths from Black death
Formally freed them before a judge
Father's had authority over children till death or till he__
10%
Up to __ women died in Childbirth
16-18
Average age of female to marry
30s-40s
Average age of men to marry
Duchy of Milan
Italian State (1/5)
Republic of Venice
Italian State (1/5)
Republic of Florence
Italian State (1/5)
Singular
Big states ruler or monarch
Princes, dukes
City states owner
moral philosophy
inherent sinful condition of human nature
1396
Ottomans conquered Bulgaria
1389
Ottomans conquered Serbia
Anatolia
Ottoman turks expanded from
13-15 C
Byzantine empire conquered from
1453
Conquest of constantinople
1054
Eastern Church in constantinople split from Roman Catholic Church
Papal power
Reason for Great schism
Manuel Chrysolaras
Byzantine scholar went on mission to venice in 1390s, stayed in italian city-states teaching
Basil Bessarion
Byzantine scholar who wanted to unify East and West Church's against ottoman conquest
Pisa
_ was conquered by florence
1406
Pisa was conquered by Florence in
Meritocracy
trait of earning power and merit
Medieval learning
Theology, medicine, canon law
Scholasticism
method of writing and teaching using defense of thesis and proof, hated by humanists
Neoplatonism
learning about platos works
humanism
Originally classical study outside Church theology
civic humanism
How to be a good citizen in city state and contribute
Leon battista Alberti
On the family, on painting author, views of marriage as unit to promote civic state
Marsilio Ficino
Neoplatonist
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
author of Oration on the Dignity of Man, 900 Thesis, Conclusion
Oration on the dignity of man
Presents positive view on humans as choice to chose to fashion onself to rational faculty
Courtier
military officer mostly drawn from noble class. advisory and court life of prince
Medieval art purpose
inspire piety
Renaissance art purpose
represent christian and classical ideas, spirituality, humanism, neoplatonism.
Petty Burghers
2nd in urban trade, shopkeepers, artisans