LOS AMIGOS HIGH SCHOOL
AP EUROPEAN HISTORY
Unit XI: THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE (1353-1527)
The Italian Renaissance (318-321)
Renaissance,
Humanism, Renaissance Man, Florence
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:
- How did the 19th century historian Jacob Burckhardt
characterize the
Renaissance, and what criticisms have been leveled against his
interpretation?
- Why
did the cultural transformation of the Renaissance first take distinctive
shape within the cities of late
medieval Italy?
- Why were the Italian city-states able to grow
powerful enough to become
independent city-states, while the cities of Northern Europe tended to
be
dominated by kings and territorial princes?
- In what ways were the governments of the Italian
city-states of Florence,
Milan,
and Venice unique?
PEOPLE:
Italian Renaissance Humanism (321-327)
Ciompi Revolt, Florentine
Academy, (Neo)-Platonism
LITERATURE:
Civilization of the Renaissance by Jacob Burckhardt
The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione
Oration on the Dignity of Man by Pico della Mirandola
Letters to the Ancient Dead by Francesco Petrarch
The Treasure of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pisan
Elegances of the Latin Language by Lorenzo Valla
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:
- How did Lorenzo Valla prove the Donation of
Constantine to be a forgery?
- How did Civic Humanism differ
from traditional Renaissance Humanism?
PEOPLE:
Francesco Petrarch Dante Alighieri Giovanni Boccaccio
Baldassare
Castiglione Christine de Pisan Giovanni Pico
della Mirandola
Italian Renaissance Art (327-330)
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:
- In Renaissance Italy, why were the values and
interests of the laity no longer
subordinated (secondary) to those of the clergy?
- How did Renaissance art differ from Medieval art?
- What new technical advantages did Renaissance
artists have over their Medieval
predecessors?
- What
was mannerism, and how did
it differ from High Renaissance art?
ART:
PEOPLE:
Giotto di Bondone Tommaso Masaccio Donatello
Leonardo
da Vinci Michelangelo Buonarroti Raphael
European Politics During the Renaissance (331-338)
Treaty of Lodi, League of Venice, Holy League, Condordat
of Bologna,
Court of Star Chamber, Golden Bull of 1356, Reichstag
LITERATURE: *not in
flash-cards
The Prince by Niccol˜ Machiavelli
GUIDED
READING QUESTIONS:
-
Why did Charles VIII of France invade Italy in 1495, and how did Italians
respond to his
invasion?
-
In what ways, after 1450, did the divided feudal monarchies of the late
Middle Ages begin to
evolve into unified national monarchies?
-
During the Late (High) Middle Ages, the nobility and the towns had acted
with varying
degrees
of unity and success through evolving representative assemblies to contain
expanding
monarchies. Identify three such representative assemblies?
- Why
did Renaissance era monarchs find it difficult to secure new national sources
of income,
and what options did they have when it
came to raising money?
- Identify
the two cornerstones of French nation building in the fifteenth century, and
briefly
explain how each contributed to the
process of French nation building?
- In
what ways did the marriage of Isabella of Castile to Ferdinand of Aragon
strengthen the
Spanish nation?
PEOPLE:
Ludovico Sforza, "il
Moro" Charles VIII of
France Girolamo Savonarola
Pope Alexander VI Cesare Borgia Pope Julius II
Niccol˜
Machiavelli Lorenzo de' Medici,
"il Magnifico"
GO TO The Northern
Renaissance