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Renaissance - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The business risk is spread among several partners (Early form of insurance)
  - - - Merchants could trade all over the Mediterranean
      - Instead of having to push a box full of coins to buy new goods
  - - - Bankers get rich (Including the Medici family, which completely dominated Florentine politics in the 15th century)
        
        Investment thinker and artist
        
        The wealth of business and banking translates into social and political status through art, architecture, and scholarship.
  - - - In exchange for European wool, crafts, and gold
- - - - Power is in the hands of the people
  - - - Titles of nobility have less meaning and more to do with one's family reputation
    - - The wealth of business and banking translates into social and political status through art, architecture, and scholarship.
      - For example: The Medici family
        
        King in all but name
        
        Pay the Council of Florence
  - - - Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, for example, describes the status quo.
      - Political competition tends to take an ongoing form
        
        Who can commission the best work of art
- - - - The Divine Comedy
        
        Focus on imaginary heroes & thinkers of the classical age
        
        The revival of classical texts
        
        Classical ideas of Renaissance
        
        "Humanism" (Brooks, 61-67)
        
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        Renaissance was a rebirth of classical learning and a rediscovery of ancient Rome and Greece.
        
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        Classical Literature
        
        An important part of elite education
        
        The founding document of modern Italian
    - - "The father of Humanism"
        
        Emulate Classical rhetorical style in Latin
      - The idea of "Dark Ages"
    - - Most important female thinker & writer in Renaissance
        
        The Book of the City of Ladies
        
        Females were considered to be inferior
        
        The first feminist work in European history
        
        Received an education equal to that of elite men, which is not common at that time
    - - Studies and retranslation of the New Testament
        
        Support to translate the Bible into vernacular languages
      - Other Works
        
        In Praise of Folly
        
        Satirises the irrationalities of the past times
        
        Handbook of the Christian Soldier
    - - The Prince
        
        The first work of political science
        
        Studied from the ancient rulers
        
        Power is more important than Morality
    - - The Courtier
        
        A guide for the social elites
  - - - The popularization of movable type printing press
        
        Fewer errors
      - Improve the speed of information sharing
        
        Thought Revolution
        
        Printing makes censorship both more difficult and more important
        
        More people are educated
        
        Buy high quality books
      - Books were more cheaper
        
        Access to information even if you can't read-Illustration
      - Language/grammar standardization
      - Johannes Gutenberg
        
        He created the first real printed book
        
        The Gutenberg Bible
        
        The world's first "best seller"
    - - Expensive
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  - - - Strict Rule
- - - - Merchant council rule
      - Control of the spice trade
        
        Terminus of spice trade
        
        Fat profit
      - The first place to build a real bank
        
        Credit - Instead of heavy gold coins
      - Dependent on diplomacy-Trade is needed to sustain prosperity
    - - A republic with longstanding traditions of civic governance
        
        Served in official posts for set terms
        
        Citizens voted on laws
        
        Powerful families dominate the system
        
        The Medici family invested a lot of things in this city
        
        Churches, orphanages, municipal buildings
        
        Completed the huge dome of the city's cathedral
      - Strong educational culture
    - - Papal rule
        
        Fight for power and honor
        
        Protecting great art without fear of spiritual authority
  - - - Avoiding Conflict
- - - - Gothic painting style
        
        Not realistic depictions
  - - - The cathedral of Florence
        
        A freestanding stone dome on top
        
        Patronage: Fame for the artist & the Medici family
    - - Projected the world of the popoli grossi back in time
        
        Humanism
      - The Birth of Venus
        
        The beauty of human body
    - - Dissections of bodies
        
        Medical knowlegde
        
        Never published when he was alive
      - Design machines
      - The Last Supper
        
        Linear perspective
    - - Sistine Chapel
      - Distinction between artisans and artists
        
        Artists have their own emotion, personality and talent
      - David
    - - The Renaissance style deliberately eschewed the complex proportional systems and irregular profiles of Gothic structures
      - Symmetry
        
        They as demonstrated in classical Roman architecture
      - Proportion
      - Geometry
      - Regularity
      - Values expressed
        
        Individualism
        
        These values was reflected in architecture, writing, painting, sculpture, science and all aspects of their lives
        
        Humanism
        
        Skepticism
        
        Totalism
        
        Secularism
        
        Classicism