1. What Renaissance thinker would be the king of DBQ?....
Petrarch
How is it different to read a text versus using the critical analysis steps when you analyze primary sources? What more do you learn?
He was perhaps the first to use critical textual analysis to ancient texts.

2. Boccacio Complied an encyclopedia of Greek and Roman mythology
Decameron is most famous work
100 tales about human character and behavior

3. Lorenzo Valla
Expert on the Latin language: Elegances of the Latin Language (1444)
Why do humanists want to learn Latin?
On the False Donation of Constantine (1444) used textual criticism to discount the Church’s claim to Constantine’s territories.

4. Marsilio Ficino
Founded the Platonic Academy at request of Cosimo de’ Medici
Translated Plato’s works into Latin, giving modern Europeans access to these works for the first time.

5. Pico della Mirandola
What would be a word you would use to describe human nature?
Oration on the Dignity of Man
Most famous Renaissance work on the nature of mankind
Humans were created by God and therefore given tremendous potential for greatness, and even union with God if they desired it

6. Baldassare Castiglione
The Book of the Courtier
Most important work on Renaissance education

7. Baldassare Castiglione
Specified qualities necessary to be a true gentleman
Described the ideal of a “Renaissance man”
Knew Greek & Roman classics, accomplished warrior, could play music, dance, and confident
What would be the modern day equivalent of a Renaissance man?

8. Printing Press: Johann Gutenberg
Why was the printing press significant?
Development of movable type made possible the spread of humanistic literature to rest of Europe with astonishing speed.