AP Euro Renaissance Review

The Medici family ruled fifteenth-century:

Founded the Platonic Academy and translated Plato's works into Latin

Renaissance society first took shape in:

Word meaning everyday language of a region or country

French king that invaded Naples in 1494

helped spread the Renaissance, helped grow vernacular, helped Protestant reformers spread ideas

Competition among city-states meant that Italy:

Viewed as a turning point in the Renaissance, the armies of Charles V sacked what city in 1527?

The "father of humanism" who considered the Middle Ages to be the "dark ages"

Written by Castiglione; perhaps the most important Renaissance work on social etiquette

Peace treaty that created a 40-year period of relative peace between Milan, Naples & Florence

Written by Machiavelli; treatise on leadership; separated politics and ethics

painted School of Athens and the Sistine Madonna

known for his landscapes and peasant scenes

Wrote Elegances of the Latin Language and On the False Donation of Constantine in 1444.

painted the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa

Humanists believed that education should:

First to use the term "Humanism", wrote perhaps the first modern history

Painted Sistine Chapel ceiling, sculptor of the David

100 tales that provide social commentary on 14th-century Italy; written by Boccacio

Written by Pico della Mirandola; perhaps the most famous Renaissance work on nature of mankind

Ruled by the Sforza family after 1450