Transcript The Italian Renaissance

Renaissance
and
Reformation
(1350-1600)
Renaissance
• period from circa 1350 to 1600
during which European scholars
revived the learning of ancient
Greece and Rome
Francesco
Petrarch
(1304-74)
• one of the early humanists of the
Renaissance
• considered the first modern poet
• traveled about Europe in search
of old manuscripts
Humanities
• grammar
• rhetoric
• poetry
• history
Italian
citystates
grew
wealthy
from
trade
and
industry.
Merchants
and bankers
emerged as
a powerful
middle class
in the Italian
city-states.
Lorenzo de’Medici
(1449-92)
• aka The Magnificent
• banker and statesman who was the
de facto ruler of the Republic of
Florence
• a leading patron of scholarship and
the arts during the Renaissance
“Athens has migrated to Florence.”
Niccolo
Machiavelli
(1469-1527)
• Italian historian, statesman, and
political philosopher
• author of The Prince, a handbook
for rulers of Italian city-states
Machiavelli
advised rulers
to use cunning,
ruthlessness,
and diplomacy
to govern their
realms.
“It is much safer to be
feared than to be loved,
if one must choose.”
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Baldassare
Castiglione
(1478-1529)
wrote an
influential
manual called
The Book of
the Courtier.
A courtier should
appreciate music,
play a variety of
instruments, be
able to speak
gracefully, and
provide their
rulers with witty,
pleasant company.
The Renaissance occurred later in
Northern Europe due to feudalism.
The kings,
queens, and
nobles of
Northern
Europe were
the chief
patrons of
the arts.
The humanists of Northern Europe
sought to uncover the purer faith of
earlier Christians.
The
Renaissance
Rocks!