Exam 13: The Renaissance: Transition to the Modern Age

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. -Why was Italian society so amenable to the development of the Renaissance?

Michel de Montaigne changed the character of humanism by

The most common form of republican government in northern Italy included a chief magistrate

The Brethren of the Common Life was known as a

At the core of Françios Rabelais' humanism was

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). -Locate the birthplace of the following individuals: Erasmus, Sir Thomas More, Montaigne, Rabelais, Jiménez, Shakespeare, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Gutenberg, and Petrarch.

In contrast to most of the rest of Europe, marriages in Italian cities of the Renaissance

Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -classical

Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -magus

The Prince was written after Italy had fallen prey to which of the following two states?

Petrarch fostered Ciceronian values primarily by

The central thesis of the Oration on the Dignity of Man was

Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -moveable type

Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -heterodox

Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -nouveaux riches

The word renaissance means

The tale of Don Quixote may be considered

Please define the following key terms.Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -individualism

Who was the first to be credited with identifying the Renaissance as the beginning of the modern world?

The cities of northern Italy differed from most of the rest of Europe in all the following ways except