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Renaissance: a renewal or rebirth of interest in Greek and roman arts…
Renaissance
: a renewal or rebirth of interest in Greek and roman arts
secular
: related to worldly things
patronage
: who gives financial or other support to a person, cause, event, or activity
The Medici's
: the cities wealthiest family; they owned the largest bank in Europe during the 1400's
Italy
: independent city-states and home to the birthplace of the renaissance
Venice
: leading renaissance city, located on the northern coast of the Adriatic sea in eastern Italy, built on many small canals
Florence
: the first major center center of the renaissance; it's wealth and central location attracted many artists, sculptors, writers, and architects
urban
:having to do with a town or city rather than rural area
vernacular
: a everday spoken language of a reigon
currency
: something such as coins or paper money, that is used as a medium of exchange;money in the form of coins or paper
mercenary
: a full time solider who fights in an army for money
Marco polo
: a merchant set out to meet Kublai Khan, the emperor of china. he went on fact finding trips all over china
humanism
: an emphasis on worldly concerns; belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is the path to knowledge
Thomas Aquinas
: great scholastic thinker of the 1200's who's writings contained elements of what would become known as humanism; he placed faith above reason but the church was critical of his teachings
Leonardo da vinci
: was one of the leading Renaissance scientist was also a greaat artist. he also cut up dead bodies to learn more about the human bodie
perspective
: a way of showing people and things from different views
William Shakespeare: English playwright ,poet, and actor
Michelangelo
: an architect poet, sculptor, and painter. began his career in florence italy.
Johannes Gutenberg
: a german printer that developed a printing press that used movable metal type, produced the first eurpoean printed book
printing press
: holds individual carved letters that could be arranged to form words then could be used again, made printing books faster