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AP European History Review

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Jacob Burkhardt

a Swiss writer that wrote Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy in 1860. He was the first to coin the Renaissance as a period of rebirth.

Hanseatic League

a commercial and defensive league of many merchant guilds and their market towns that were made up of many German States against trade that prevented a lot of commerce for a time

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a banking family of Florence that controlled much power in the city state; they helped patron much of the arts and made Florence the center of the Renaissance

Baldassare Castilglione

wrote Book of The Courtier; a standard for the Renaissance man that aimed to make a man achieve a well-rounded life through the arts. It also gave some advice on women, asking them to be chaste.

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Francisco Sforza

the founder of the Sforza dynasty in Milan, he was able to hold his country. He was a moderate patron of the arts.

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