Final Exam Chp. 12 Study Guide Questions and Answers

Definition of Renaissance - -rebirth -Where in Italy did banking originate? - -Florence -Which family was responsible for banking in Italy - -Medici -Five major states of Italy - -Milan, Venice, Florence, Papal States, Naples -The author of the Book of the Courtier, a handbook on courtly manners, was - -Castiglione -Believed a political ruler should be more feared than loved. - -Machiavelli -An intellectual movement based on the study of Classical literary works of Greece and Rome. - -Humanism -Father of Humanism - -Petrarch -Petrarch's interests in the classics led him on a quest for manuscripts in this language. - -Latin -Wrote a biography on Cicero. - -Bruni -Translated the works of Plato. - -Ficino -Synthesis of Christianity and Platonism - -Neoplatonism -Intellectual movement that taught divinity is embodied in all aspects of nature. - -Hermeticism -Doctrine that equates God with with the universe and all that is in it. - -Pantheism -Humanists believed that human beings could