Renaissance Vocabulary II

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  1. 4. The official ruler chosen from merchant nobles in Venice
  2. 7. Wealthy Italian city-state located at the crossroads, of the main trade routes from Italy north through the Alps; led by the Visconti and the Sforza families
  3. 8. powerful Milanese family; Francesco conquered Milan; the family created an efficient system of taxation that kept them rich and powerful.
  4. 9. important north Italian port for trade, on the Adriatic Sea
  5. 11. A soldier who is paid to fight in a foreign army. Such soldiers sacked Rome, even though it was the seat of the Church, the Holy City.
  6. 13. Renaissance writer; formerly a politician, wrote The Prince, a work on ethics and government, describing how rulers maintain power by methods that ignore right or wrong; accepted the philosophy that "the end justifies the means."
  7. 14. someone from Florence
  8. 17. wealthy
  9. 18. "____________ of the Vanities" - The burning of books, jewels, and other items that were sacrilegious to bring the kingdom of heaven to earth. Led by Savanarola after Lorenzo's d' Medici's death.
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  1. 1. Capital of Italy and seat of the Catholic Church, at the Vatican.
  2. 2. Any belief that is strongly opposed to established beliefs, often as defined by the Catholic Church
  3. 3. someone from Venice
  4. 5. Catholic priest who led uprising (Forced Medici out of Florence), preached against worldliness, led the Bonfire of the Vanities, and was later burned at stake for heresy
  5. 6. an Italian city-state and leading cultural center during the Renaissance, led by the Medici family
  6. 10. "rebirth"; following the Middle Ages, a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome
  7. 12. Banking family that ruled Florence during the Renaissance, became wealthy from banking, spent heavily on art, controlled Florence for about 3 centuries
  8. 15. a type of government in which people chose their own leaders; Venice had such a government, led by the Doge.
  9. 16. The practice of lending money for interest, considered a sin by the Church during the Middle Ages, but increasingly permitted during the Renaissance in Italy.