Terms – Italian Renaissance

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  1. Jacob Burckhardt, Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
  3. Petrarch (1304-74); Ascent of Mount Ventoux
  4. Boccaccio (1313-75); Decameron
  5. Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406)
  6. Lorenzo Valla (1406-57); Donation of Constantine
  7. Leonardo Bruni; History of Florence (1420)
  8. Flavio Biondo (1392-1463)
  9. Liberal Arts
  10. l’uomo universale
  11. Johann Gutenburg (c.1395-1468)
  12. Jakob Fugger – Augsburg
  13. Civic Humanism / vita activa-civilis
  14. condottieri
  15. sprezzatura
  16. contrapposto
  17. Popes Sixtus IV, Alexander VI, Julius II, Leo X, Clement VII
  18. Vatican Library
  19. St. Peters Basilica
  20. Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72); Della Pittura, Malatesta Temple (Rimini), Sant’Andrea (Mantua)
  21. Platonic Academy
  22. Marsilio Ficino (1433-99)
  23. Pico della Mirandola (1463-94); Oration on the Dignity of Man
  24. Vetruvius, De architectura
  25. Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455), The Gates of Paradise (Baptistery, Florence)
  26. Filippo Brunelleschi (1379-1446): Ospedale delgi Innocenti; Il Duomo; San Lorenzo; Pazzi Chapel; Medici Chapel
  27. Bramante (1444-1514), St. Peters Basilica
  28. Masaccio (1401-28), The Trinity
  29. Donatello (1386-1466): St. George; David; Gattemelatta
  30. Giorgio Vasari (1511-74); Lives of the Artists; The Uffizzi
  31. Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510); Primavera; Birth of Venus
  32. Raphael (1483-1520), School of Athens
  33. Mannerism
  34. d’Este – Ferarra
  35. Sforza – Milan / Francesco Sforza / Galeazzo Maria Sforza
  36. motet and madrigal / Loyset Compere
  37. Medici – Florence
  38. Gonzaga – Mantua
  39. Galeazzo Maria Sforza
  40. Isabella D’Este
  41. Leonardo da Vinci
  42. Peace of Lodi, 1454
  43. Cosimo di Medici
  44. Lorenzo di Medici
  46. Pazzi Conspiracy, 1478
  47. The Italian Wars 1494-1559
  48. Girolamo Savonarola (d.1498)
  49. Palazzo della Signoria (Vecchio)
  50. Charles VIII of France (r.1483-98)
  51. Louis XII of France (r.1498-1515)
  52. Francis I of France (r.1515-47)
  53. Ferdinand of Aragon (r.1479-1516)
  54. Maximilian I, HRE (r.1508-19)
  55. Cesare Borgia
  56. Battle of Pavia (1525) – Sack of Rome (1527)
  57. Michelangelo – Il Divino: David; St. Peters Basilica; The Medici Tombs; Sistine Chapel
  58. Benozzo Gozzoli, Palazzo Medici Chapel (Florence)
  59. Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier – Urbino
  60. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
  61. Mannerism
  62. El Greco

Bigger Questions to consider:

  • How is government changing by the early 16th century, in ways that are certainly glimpsed by Machiavelli and embraced by Guicciardini?

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