Definitions
- Humanism-a philosophy of life that considers the welfare of humankind – rather than the welfare of a supposed God or gods – to be of paramount importance.
- Humanities-the study of all languages and literatures, the arts, history, and philosophy
- Petrarch- a scholar who laid the foundations for Renaissance humanism
Florence- a Roman military colony about the 1st century bce
5.Patron-. a person, esp a man, who sponsors or aids artists, charities, etc; protector or benefactor.
- Perspective- the 'point of view' from which the creator of a source described historical events.
- Lenardo Da Vinci-Italian Renaissance artist, architect, engineer, and scientist.
- Michelangelo-Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, and poet
- Baldassare Castiglione-Italian courtier, diplomat, and writer
- Niccolo Machivelli-Italian Renaissance political philosopher and statesman and secretary of the Florentine.
- Vernacular-the way people use language in a specific country or region.
- Johannes Gutenberg-designed and built the first known mechanized printing press in Europe
- Flanders-a medieval country in W Europe, extending along the North Sea from the Strait of Dover to the Scheldt River
- Albrecht Durer- a painter, printmaker, and writer generally regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist
- Engraving- an intaglio printmaking process in which lines are cut into a metal plate in order to hold the ink.
- Erasmus-Dutch humanist who was the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance, the first editor of the New Testament, and also an important figure in patristics and classical literature.
- Utopian-visionary reform that tends to be impossibly idealistic
- Shakespeare-an English playwright, poet and actor
- Sir Thomas More-a lawyer, scholar, statesman, and Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII of England
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