AP Euro Exam Review 2024 with solution

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 inbetween 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