AP European History / Unit 1: Renaissance and Exploration
1.2 Italian Renaissance
Notes
Italian city-states (Florence, Venice) grew rich from trade and banking (the Medici). Humanism (Petrarch) studied classical texts and human potential. **Machiavelli's The Prince** described power politics. Artists: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael used perspective and realism.
Practice
Humanism emphasized:
Studia humanitatis.
The Prince argued that rulers should:
Machiavelli.
The Medici family were powerful:
Patronage.
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