The prince
His death marked the start of the renaissance. He was called the father of humanism.
Spanish monarchy in the renaissance
Renaissance art
Impacts of the printing press
Believed education should promote individual virtue and self sacrificing public service. Aka. Civic humanism
Humanism
A focus on the human body and human achievements.
French monarchy in the renaissance
Leonardo Bruni
First to coin the term “humanism”. First to divide history into 3 parts.
Separation of church and state.
Castiglione
A long career as a diplomat for Milan. Wrote “the courtier” on how a gentleman should behave in court.
Renaissance monarchies
New military technology meant only centralized government could afford to go to war. Monarchs became more powerful, nobility lost power.
He wrote the famous “oration on the dignity of man”, the manifesto of the renaissance. Humans are free to become whatever they want
Civic humanism
New technology made war more expensive and it required large centralized governments to afford it. The monarch’s gained power and the nobility lost it.
