Transcript Unit II Renaissance

The Renaissance
If any prince
bases his state
upon
mercenaries,
he will never
succeed in
making it stable
or secure
After the
darkness has
been dispelled,
our grandsons
will be able to
walk back into
the pure
radiance of the
past
Petrarch
Machiavelli
The principal and
true profession of
the courtier
ought to be that
of arms
We can surely say
that he was sent by
heaven to renew the
art of architecture
He who
despises
painting loves
neither
philosophy nor
nature
Leonardo
The hope of
winning public
honours is the
same for all......
Castiglione
Vasari
Salutati
Renaissance Italy
urban culture
strong merchant
class
city-states
center of trade
educated elite
City-States/Economies
Italy - contact between East
and West
Florence - center of textile
industry
banking - facilitated
international commerce
Venice and Genoa - trade,
shipbuilding,insurance
growth of merchant
Florence
center of cultural revival
many schools, university
high literacy rate
population equal to
london
Government by Signoria
and Councils
Medici
Cosimo de’ Medici
(1389-1464)
Lorenzo the
Magnificent (14491492)
Social Classes
Elites (popolo
grasso) - nobles,
merchants patricians
mass of urban
population (popolo
minuto) - artisans,
laborers; in
countryside,
peasants
Humanism
rediscovery of
classical learning
Petrarch - father of
italian humanism
Tuscan poet
classical world - ideal
Humanism vs
Scholasticism
Focus on liberal
arts (humanitas) grammar, logic,
music, math,
astronomy, rhetoric
humanists - new
education served to
teach the “art of
living”
Pico della
Mirandola
(1463-1494)
Baldassare
Castiglione
(1478-1529)
Niccolo
Machiavelli
(1469-1527)
Leonardo da
vinci (14521519)
Expressed
humanist
spirit
Lorenzo Valla
(1407-1457)
Donation of
Constantine
Erasmus (14691536) - greatest
of the northern
humanists
Critic of
scholasticism,
monastic life
called for reform
Christian
humanism
Sir Thomas
more (14661536)
Leading English
humanist
Author of Utopia
promoter of
New Learning