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The Renaissance
Mia Alatorre
Term | Definition |
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considerable | in large amount of number; large enough to be noticeable |
rual | relating to the county |
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 | to do work with out being tired |
divine | having the qualities of god |
mercantile | related to trade |
patron | someone who gives money or other support to a person or group |
lorenzo de' medici' | spent large sums of money |
humanism | a cultural movement of the renaissance based on the study of classical works |
secularism | the view that religion need to be the center of human affairs |
vernacular | an every day spoken language of the people |
niccolo machiavelli | he wrote the prince |
individualism | the belief in the importance of the individual |
thomas more | the first northern reformers |
utopia | an imaginary ideal place |
desiderius erasmus | a dutch scholar |
satire | a piece of writing that that attacks vice |
francisco rabelais | a monk a doctor a scholar and an author |
johann gutenberg | invented movable metal type |
censor | to remove material from published works |
linear perspective | a mathematical system for representing 3 dimensional space on a flat surface |
leonardo da Vinci | a true geniuses |
michelangelo | a printer,sculptor, and architect |
dante alighieri | important contributions |
William shakespeare | important contributions |
miguel de cervantes | important contributions |
sonnet | poem of 14 lines |