Unveiling the Renaissance: Humanisms Legacy and Key Figures

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Renaissance – Humanism Which year did the Constantinople fall to the Turks 1853 1653 1453 Who was Petrarch’s successor Dante [Name] [Name] What was Petrarch best known for? Translation of Plato’s complete extant works into Latin Author [Author] Creation of the sonnet form of poetry Who was Pico Della mirandola Giovanni An architect Italian philosopher and popular humanist A theologist Who wrote, “One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit.” Pico Della mirandola Giovanni Niccolo Machiavelli [Author] Who is attributed to the Italian vernacular masterpiece, Divine Comedy? Dante Alighieri Pico Della Mirandola Giovanni Giovanni Boccaccio Which Italian author, poet and a correspondent of Petrarch is attributed to the ‘Decameron’. Dante Alighieri Pico Della Mirandola Giovanni Giovanni Boccaccio Which of the works opens with a description of the Bubonic Plague (Black Death) and leads into an introduction of a group of seven young women and three young men who fled from plague ridden Florence for a villa outside of the city? Divine Comedy Decameron The Canterbury tales Who is the best known of all the Christian humanists Christine de Pizan Desiderius Erasmus Thomas of Kempen Which year was ‘The praise of folly’ written 1509 1453 1500 Who wrote these words, “A poor peasant who serves God, is better than a proud philosopher who ... ponders the courses of the stars." Thomas of Kempen Thomas More Martin Luther