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AP Euro Exam Review Questions and Answers Already Passed Cosimo de Medici supported education and the arts, made many business connections in Europe Lorenzo Medici gave power to the lower classes of Italy, but he let his family business decline. Savonorola bonfire of Vanities and Ruled Florence STRICTLY, later exectued by the Pope Petrarch coined the term renaissance, , () Father of the Renaissance. He believed the first two centuries of the Roman Empire to represent the peak in the development of human civilization. Pico della Mirandola Wrote On the Dignity of Man which stated that man was made in the image of God before the fall and as Christ after the Resurrection. Man is placed in-between beasts and the angels. He also believed that there is no limits to what man can accomplish. Lorenzo Valla Wrote "On Pleasure" defended the senses of good Giovanni Bocaccio Decameron, Federigo's Falcon, timelessness and university, 1300s, Humanism Castiglione Wrote "The Courtier" describing all of the major things that a man must have in order to be a functioning societal person Machiavellli Wrote the Prince, a book about using politics as a science. "feared rather than loved" and "fox and lion"Desiderius Erasmus Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe, Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe although his criticisms of the Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin Luther. he wrote The Praise of Folly, worked for Frobein and translated the New Testament from Greek to Latin() Jan Van Eyck Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil painting () Thomas More English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded, He was a English humanist that contributed to the world today by revealing the complexities of man. He wrote Utopia, a book that represented a revolutionary view of society. (p.437) Jerome Bosch He was a Flemish painter whose works display the confusion and anguish of the end of the Middle Ages. Jerome Bosch frequently used religious themes, colorful imagery, and grotesque fantasies in his works of art. (p.439) New Monarchies Historians' term for the monarchies in France, England, and Spain from 1450 to 1600. The centralization of royal power was increasing within more or less fixed territorial limits. (p. 414) Thomas a' Kempis German ecclesiastic (), author of "the imitation of christ"; early northern christian writer who challenged individuals to live a godly life rather than focus just on knowledge, summarized philosophy of Brothers of the Common Life in 'Imitation of Life', died in 1471, associated with Brethren of the Common Life, He was the leader of the mystic group known as Modern Devotion John Wycliffe (c.) Forerunner to the Reformation. Created English Lollardy. Attacked the corruption of the clergy, and questioned the power of the pope.