Humanism
A focus on the human body and human achievements.
The printing press helped spread the ideas of the renaissance.
Civic humanism
An emphasis on the public good
Beliefs on education in the renaissance
Believed education should promote individual virtue and self sacrificing public service. Aka. Civic humanism
French monarchy in the renaissance
The pope rented the power to appoint church officials in France to the king through the accordo di bologna
Secularism
Separation of church and state.
Spanish monarchy in the renaissance
Renaissance art
Leonardo Bruni
The prince
Machiavelli wrote about how an effective ruler should behave: they should maintain order and stability, be feared but not hated.
Petrarch
His death marked the start of the renaissance. He was called the father of humanism.
New monarchies
New technology made war more expensive and it required large centralized governments to afford it. The monarch’s gained power and the nobility lost it.
He wrote the famous “oration on the dignity of man”, the manifesto of the renaissance. Humans are free to become whatever they want
Renaissance monarchies
A long career as a diplomat for Milan. Wrote “the courtier” on how a gentleman should behave in court.
