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Page 2: Renaissance Notes
Agenda: Notes The Prince – GIST Finish brochures, if timeHomework:Quiz tomorrow on
renaissance!-Why did renaissance begin?-Important renaissance people-What came from the
renaissance?
Humanism and Renaissance Art
• Humanism was a new approach to learning that included history and languages.
• Artists used Greek and Roman history and Arab mathematics to create a new realism in their work.
Italy’s trade carried the new Renaissance ideas to France, England, Spain and the German States from when the Renaissance began in Italy in roughly 1400 A.D until Italy lost its trading dominance in the 1500’s.
Trade routes from Italy to the rest of Europe
Political Ideas of the Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli
The PrinceMachiavelli believed:
“One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit”
Machiavelli observed city-state rulers of his day and produced guidelines for the acquisition and maintenance of power by absolute rule.
He felt that a ruler should be willing to do anything to maintain control without worrying about conscience.