HISTORY: Renaissance Italy · 2019-03-12 · 2015 RENAISSANCE ITALY EXAM 2 SECTION A – Question 1 – continued Question 1 (10 marks) Describe the similarities and differences between

HISTORY: Renaissance ItalyWritten examination

Thursday 12 November 2015 Reading time: 11.45 am to 12.00 noon (15 minutes) Writing time: 12.00 noon to 2.00 pm (2 hours)

QUESTION AND ANSWER BOOK

Structure of bookSection Number of

questionsNumber of questions

to be answeredNumber of

marks

A 2 2 20B 3 3 20C 2 1 20D 3 3 20

Total 80

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• No calculator is allowed in this examination.

Materials supplied• Question and answer book of 22 pages. There is a detachable insert for Section D in the centrefold.• Additional space is available at the end of the book if you need extra paper to complete an answer.

Instructions• Detach the insert from the centre of this book during reading time.• Write your student number in the space provided above on this page.

• All written responses must be in English.

Students are NOT permitted to bring mobile phones and/or any other unauthorised electronic devices into the examination room.

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2015 RENAISSANCE ITALY EXAM 2

SECTION A – Question 1 – continued

Question 1 (10 marks)Describe the similarities and differences between republican and non-republican systems of government on the Italian peninsula during the Renaissance. Support your answer with reference to specifi c examples.

SECTION A

Instructions for Section AAnswer both questions in the spaces provided. Both questions focus on Unit 3 Outcome 1: The Italian peninsula and the Renaissance.

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SECTION A – Question 2 – continued

Question 2 (10 marks)Describe the impact of humanism on the visual arts and education during the Renaissance. Support your answer with reference to specifi c examples.


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SECTION B – continued

Source 1‘In this society [Florence in the late 1300s] in which corporate groups had lost much of their power and cohesiveness, the individual was extremely vulnerable. He was no longer protected, to the same degree as before, by family or guild connections. To defend himself against the dangers and threats which now confronted him, he sought the support and friendship of men more powerful and influential than himself. He did not neglect marriage alliances, and he continued to join a guild, the Parte Guelfa, or a religious association. But he now placed greater reliance upon these personal connections with important men, which counted for more than membership in corporate groups.’

Gene A Brucker, Renaissance Florence, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1983, p. 99

Source 2 – Buonaccorso Pitti, a prominent Florentine merchant‘On reaching Florence I resolved to get married. Since Guido di Messer Tommaso di Neri del Palagio was the most respected and influential man in the city, I decided to put the matter in his hands and leave the choice of bride up to him, provided he picked her among his own relatives. For I calculated that if I were to become a connection of his and could win his good will, he would be obliged to help me obtain a truce with the Corbizi family. Accordingly, I sent the marriage-broker1, Bartolo della Contessa, to tell Guido of my intentions. He sent Bartolo back with the message that he would be happy to have me as a kinsman and was giving the matter thought. A few days later he sent him a second time to say that if I liked I might have the daughter of Luca, son of Piero degli Albizzi, whose mother was a first cousin of his own. I sent back word that I would be very happy and honored and so forth. I was betrothed to her at the end of July 1391 and married her on 12 November of the same year.’

Reprinted by permission of Waveland Press, Inc. from Gene Brucker (ed.) (trans. Julia Martines), Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence: The Diaries of Buonaccorso Pitti & Gregorio Dati,

Long Grove, IL United States: Waveland Press, Inc., ©1967 reissued 1991; All rights reserved.

1marriage-broker – someone who arranges marriages

SECTION B

Instructions for Section BExamine the following written material and answer all three questions in the spaces provided. All questions focus on Unit 3 Outcome 2: Renaissance Florence.


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Question 1 (6 marks)a. Name one of the ‘corporate groups’, mentioned in Source 1, to which Gene Brucker refers. 1 mark

b. Give one reason why Pitti wanted high-status Guido to arrange his marriage. 1 mark

c. Explain how the extract by Pitti supports two of the opinions given by Gene Brucker in Source 1. 4 marks


SECTION B – Question 3 – continued

Question 2 (4 marks)Using your own knowledge, describe how economic and social factors caused unrest and infl uenced change in Florence during the 1300s.

Question 3 (10 marks)In the maintenance of Medicean control, was the exercise of personal infl uence more important than the changes made to the structures of government? Discuss in relation to two Medici rulers. Support your response with reference to primary sources and historians’ opinions.


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SECTION C – continued

SECTION C

Instructions for Section CChoose one of the following essay topics which focus on Unit 4 Outcome 1: Social life in Renaissance Italy.

Question 1 (20 marks)

Florence

‘Renaissance people could enjoy many opportunities to belong to associations based on relation, friendship, religious activity, residence, and citizenship. Belonging to such groups enriched the identity of individuals, and stretched networks of affi liation1 across the city …’

Margaret L King, The Renaissance in Europe, Laurence King Publishing, London, 2003, p. 143

1affi liation – connection

To what extent was participation in the social life of the city available to all individuals in Florence?

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Question 2 (20 marks)

Venice

‘A wide range of social affi liations1 linked people of different stations2 together in more than one way, starting within the household and extending to the workplace, the tavern, the market, the parish church, the neighborhood faction, guilds, confraternities3, ethnic communities, and sexual relations.’

Joanne M Ferraro, Venice: History of the Floating City, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2012, pp. 77 and 78

1affi liations – connections2stations – status, position in society3confraternities – scuole

To what extent was participation in the social life of the city available to all individuals in Venice?


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Gentile Bellini, Recovery of the Relic at the Bridge of S. Lorenzo, originally in the Scuola di S. Giovanni Evangelista; Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, c. 1500

Question 1 (4 marks)Identify how the visual representation shows four elements of the Myth of Venice.

SECTION D

Instructions for Section DRemove the insert from the centre of this book before answering this section.Answer the following three questions in response to the visual representation.All questions focus on Unit 4 Outcome 2: Renaissance Venice.


SECTION D – Question 3 – continued

Question 2 (6 marks)Using the representation and your own knowledge, explain how Venetian processions had both religious and civic functions.

Question 3 (10 marks)How did imperial growth and decline infl uence the development of the Myth of Venice? In your response, refer to a range of events and visual and/or written primary sources, as well as secondary texts by historians.


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Gentile Bellini, Recovery of the Relic at the Bridge of S. Lorenzo, originally in the Scuola di S. Giovanni Evangelista; Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, c. 1500

Giandomenico Romanelli (ed.), Venice: Art & Architecture, Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Cologne, 1997, p. 277

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