Post on 16-Dec-2015
Italian Renaissance
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Objectives
• Who was Marco Polo and how was he influential?
• Why were the cities of Milan, Florence, and Venice important?
• How did the city of Florence rise to its position of fame?
• What inspired Renaissance artists and scholars?
Do whatever it takes, even if it’s evil.
Terms and People
• Renaissance means rebirth, and refers to an artistic and scientific rise in Europe in the 1400s and 1500s.
• Humanism is a focus on human achievement rather than on nature or religion.
• Dante was a writer that chose to write in Italian instead of Latin like other scholars.
• Machiavelli wrote a book called The Prince, which tried to teach rulers how they should rule.
Mocky-a-Velly
Let me tell you about when I visited Hell!
Terms and People
• Michelangelo was a sculptor and painter
• Leonardo da Vinci was an all-around genius – scientist and artist.