For Olivia - the lj cut was doing weird things
Feudalism
refers to a general set of reciprocal
legal and military obligations among the warrior nobility of Europe during the Middle Ages, revolving around the three key concepts of lords, vassals, and fiefs.
Scholasticism
comes from the
Latin word scholasticus, which means "that [which] belongs to the school", and was a method of learning taught by the academics of medieval universities circa 1100-1500. Scholasticism originally began to reconcile the philosophy of the ancient classical philosophers with medieval Christian theology. It is not a philosophy or theology in itself, but a tool and method for learning which puts emphasis on dialectical reasoning. The primary purpose of scholasticism was to find the answer to a question or resolve a contradiction. It is most well known in its application in medieval theology, but was eventually applied to classical philosophy and many other fields of study.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
(c.
1225 - 7 March 1274) was an Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition, known as Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Universalis. He is the most famous classical proponent of natural theology. He gave birth to the Thomistic school of philosophy, which was long the primary philosophical approach of the Catholic Church. He is considered by many Catholics to be the Church's greatest theologian; he is one of the thirty-three Doctors of the Church. Also, many institutions of learning have been named after him.
Pope Alexander VI
(
1 January 1431 - 18 August 1503), born Rodrigo Borja (Italian: Rodrigo Borgia), (in office from 1492 to 1503), is the most controversial of the secular popes of the Renaissance and one whose surname became a byword for the debased standards of the papacy of that era. He was born at Xàtiva, València, Spain, and his father's surname was Lanzol or Llançol; he assumed his mother's family name, Borgia or Borja, on the elevation of his maternal uncle to the papacy as Calixtus III (1455-1458) on 8 April 1455.
Pope Leo X
born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici (
11 December 1475 - 1 December 1521) was Pope from 1513 to his death. He is known primarily for his failure to stem the Protestant Reformation, which began during his reign when Martin Luther (1483-1546) first accused the Roman Catholic Church of corruption.
Dante Alighieri
or simply Dante, (c.
June 1, 1265 - September 13/14, 1321) was an Italian Florentine poet. His greatest work, la Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), is considered the greatest literary statement produced in Europe during the Middle Ages.
Giovanni Boccaccio
(
June 16, 1313 - December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including On Famous Women, the Decameron and his poems in the vernacular. Boccaccio's characters are notable for their era in that they are realistic, spirited and clever individuals who are grounded in reality (in contradiction to the characters of his contemporaries, who were more concerned with the Medieval virtues of Chivalry, Piety and Humility).
Sandro Botticelli
("little barrel") (
March 1, 1445 - May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a "golden age", a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his Vita of Botticelli.
Filippo Brunelleschi
(
1377 - April 15, 1446) was a great Florentine architect of the Italian Renaissance
Michelangelo
(
March 6, 1475 - February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet.
Baldassare Castiglione
count of Novellata (
December 6, 1478 - February 2, 1529), was a diplomat and was a very prominent Renaissance author.
Charles V
(
French: Charles V le Sage) (January 31, 1338 - September 16, 1380) was king of France from 1364 to 1380 and a member of the Valois Dynasty. His reign marked a high point for France during the Hundred Years' War, with his armies recovering much of the territory ceded to England at the Treaty of Bretigny.
isabella d'este
not in wikipedia but she was a dutchess of something...and she was influential?
Leonardo da Vinci
(
April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519) was a talented Italian Renaissance Roman Catholic polymath: architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, scientist, mathematician, musician and painter. He has been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man", a man infinitely curious and equally inventive. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time.
Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici
(
Florence, January 1, 1449 - 9 April 1492) was an Italian statesman and ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance.
Lucrezia
(or Lucrecia) Borgia
(
April 14 or April 18, 1480 - June 24, 1519) was the bastard daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance Valencian who later became Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei.
Miquel De Cervantes
...?
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
1463 - November 17, 1494) was an Italian Renaissance humanist philosopher and scholar, whose short influential life was brilliant, peripatetic, adventurous and almost theatrical in its eventfulness and intensity.
Donatello
(
1386 - December 13, 1466) was a famous Florentine artist and sculptor of the early Renaissance
Erasmus
(
October 27, probably 1466 - July 12, 1536) was a Dutch humanist and theologian. Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a "pure" Latin style.