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The Origins
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Considerable | In a large amount or number large enough to be noticeable or to have noticeable effects. |
Rural | Relating to the countryside. |
Create | To make something exist. |
Proportion | Relation of parts within a whole. |
Reform | To improve by making changes to something. |
Reveal | To show something that was previously hidden. |
Energy | Ability to be active and do work without becoming tired. |
Divine | Having the qualities of God, or coming from God. |
Mercantile | Means related to commerce or trade. |
Patron | A patron is someone who gives money or other support to a person or group. |
Lorenzo de' Medici | spent large sums of money on artistic and architectural. |
Humanism | was a cultural movement of the Renaissance based on the study of classical works. |
Secularism | this was the view that religion need not be the center of humans affairs. |
Vernacular | or everyday spoken language of the people. |
Niccolo Machiavelli | published in 1513 the prince was a highly influential work of political thought. |
Individualism | this is the belief in the importance of the individual, as opposed to the larger community. |
Thomas More | his best known work is a book entitled Utopia. |
Utopia | to mean an imaginary ideal place. |
Desiderius Erasmus | a Dutch scholar who embraced the moral teachings of Jesus. |
Satire | is a piece of writing that attacks vice or folly through ridicule or sarcasm. |
Francois Rabelais | was a monk doctor scholar and author. |
Johann Gutenberg | invented movable metal type. |
Censor | means to remove materials from published works or prevent their publication. |
Linear Perspective | this is a mathematical system for representing three-dimensional space on a flat surface. |
Leonardo da Vinci | Leonardo was one of the true geniuses of the Renaissance. |
Michelangelo | he was a painter sculptor and architect as well as a great poet. |
Dante Alighieri | had great impact. |
William Shakespeare | had a great impact. |
Miguel De Cervantes | had a great impact. |
Sonnet | is a poem of fourteen lines with a fixed rhyming pattern. |