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?

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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.

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Terms and People

• Michelangelo was a sculptor and painter

• Leonardo da Vinci was an all-around genius – scientist and artist.

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