A long career as a diplomat for Milan. Wrote “the courtier” on how a gentleman should behave in court.
Beliefs on education in the renaissance
Believed education should promote individual virtue and self sacrificing public service. Aka. Civic humanism
New military technology meant only centralized government could afford to go to war. Monarchs became more powerful, nobility lost power.
Secularism
Separation of church and state.
The prince
Machiavelli wrote about how an effective ruler should behave: they should maintain order and stability, be feared but not hated.
The pope rented the power to appoint church officials in France to the king through the accordo di bologna
Petrarch
His death marked the start of the renaissance. He was called the father of humanism.
Renaissance art
Focused much more on realism as artists learned how to use perspective
Leonardo Bruni
Humanism
A focus on the human body and human achievements.
New monarchies
Impacts of the printing press
Spanish monarchy in the renaissance
Isabella and Ferdinand conquered the Muslim state of Grenada, expelled Spanish Jews and tortured non-Catholics
Poco della Mirandola
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
An emphasis on the public good
