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Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society, Seventh Edition
Marvin Perry, Baruch College, City University of New York, Emeritus
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Chapter 13:
The Renaissance
| 1200-1300 |
Bologna, Padua, and Ravenna become centers of legal studies | | 1300-1450 |
Republicanism reigns in northern Italian city-states | | 1304-1374 |
Petrarch, "father of humanism" | | 1378 |
Ciompi revolt in Florence | | c. 1407-1457 |
Lorenzo Valla, author of Declamation Concerning the False Decretals of Constantine | | c. 1445 |
Johann Gutenberg invents movable metal type | | 1454 |
Peace of Lodi is signed | | 1494 |
Charles VIII of France invades northern Italy; Pope Julius II commissions
frescoes by Michelangelo for the Vatican's Sistine Chapel | | 1513 |
Machiavelli writes The Prince | | 1528 |
The Book of the Courtier, by Baldesar Castiglione, is published | | 1535 |
Sir Thomas More, English humanist and author of Utopia, is executed for treason |
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