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Unit I I.D. List
Discussion: The Renaissance in Italy & Humanism
Words to look up: secular, classics, feudal, commerce, capitalism, lay (laity), monopoly,
oligarchy, city-state, anarchy, despotism, diplomacy, republic, guilds, mercenary,
individualism, rhetoric, liberal arts, vernacular, papal, precedent, theologian, synthesize,
& analysis
1. Cosimo de Medici
2. Lorenzo de Medici
3. Manuel Chrysoloras
4. Petrarch (Letters to the Ancient Dead)
5. Dante (Divine Comedy)
6. Boccaccio (Decameron)
7. Castiglione (Book of the Courtier)
8. Pico della Mirandola (Oration on the Dignity of Man)
9. Lorenzo Valla (Donation of Constantine)
10. Galen – under Unit I readings
11. Andreas Vesalius ( On Anatomical Prodecures) – under Unit I readings
12. Isabella d’Este (reading given in class)
Discussion: Italy’s Political Decline and the Revival of Monarchy in Northern
Europe
Words to look up: alliance, dynastic, papacy, satire, patriotism, romanticize,
Machiavellian, expediency, dictator, pontificate, monarchy, sovereign, representative,
semiautonomous, vassal, subjugate, chivalric, partition, autonomous, imperial, diet,
executive, intelligentsia, elite, propaganda, indoctrinate, indulgences, anticlerical, ethical,
doctrine, dogmatic, & repudiation
13. Treaty of Lodi (1455)
14. Savonarola
15. Ferdinand of Aragon
16. Borgia
17. Julius II
18. Machiavelli (The Prince)
19. Charles V (Habsburg)
20. English Parliament
21. French Estates General
22. Spanish Cortes
23. Louis XI (1461-1483)
24. Charles the Bold
25. Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain
26. Inquisition
27. Wars of the Roses (Tudor)
28. Golden Bull (1356)
29. Johann Gutenberg
30. Erasmus (Colloquies and Adages)
31. Thomas More (Utopia)
Discussion: Renaissance Art
Words to look up: clergy, bureaucracy, rational, symmetry, proportionality, perspective,
abstract, contemporary, frescoes, & piety
32. Giotto
33. Masaccio
34. Donatello
35. Leonardo da Vinci
36. Raphael
37. Michelangelo
38. Jan Van Eyck (class discussion/hmwk)
39. Pieter Bruegel the Elder (class discussion/hmwk)
40. Durer (class discussion/hmwk)
Discussion: Age of Exploration
Words to look up: geographical, intellectual, supremacy, missionary, ideals, enterprise,
exploitation, inflation, hierarchical, servitude, predominance, entrepreneur, usury,
reactionary, agrarian
41. Prince Henry, the Navigator
42. Fugger and Welser
43. Bartholomew Dias
44. Vasco da Gama
45. Christopher Columbus
46. Amerigo Vespucci
47. Ferdinand Magellan
48. Mayans, Aztecs and Incas
49. Hernan Cortes
50. Francisco Pizarro
51. Medicis of Florence