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Which humanist of 1304-78 stressed close reading of the ancient Greeks and Romans?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Roman lawyer used humanitas, root of the word humanities, to mean culture?Read the answer and worked solution →Pico della Mirandola wrote On the Dignity of Man in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Florentine artist of 1267-1337 painted lifelike portraits, unlike the stiff earlier figures?Read the answer and worked solution →In Arabic translations, Plato was known as:Read the answer and worked solution →Ibn Sina, called Avicenna in Latin, was a physician of which Central Asian city?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Belgian professor at Padua was the first to dissect the human body?Read the answer and worked solution →Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa and which other famous work?Read the answer and worked solution →Who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling in 1512?Read the answer and worked solution →Brunelleschi designed which landmark in 1436?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1455, how many copies of the Bible were printed in Gutenberg's workshop?Read the answer and worked solution →Europeans learned printing technology from which people?Read the answer and worked solution →Machiavelli wrote The Prince in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Machiavelli saw which motive as the incentive for every human action?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Venetian woman humanist of 1465-1558 gave orations at the University of Padua?Read the answer and worked solution →Castiglione's 1528 book on manners at court was:Read the answer and worked solution →Martin Luther launched his campaign against the Catholic Church in:Read the answer and worked solution →In Switzerland, Luther's ideas were spread by Zwingli and later by:Read the answer and worked solution →Ignatius Loyola set up the Society of Jesus in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Renaissance artistsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the reformersRead the answer and worked solution →Run the Renaissance datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the scientistsRead the answer and worked solution →Art or scienceRead the answer and worked solution →Sort by countryRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Renaissance bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The earliest hand printing, rubbing paper on inked woodblocks from AD 594, developed in:Read the answer and worked solution →The oldest Japanese printed book, from AD 868, is the Buddhist:Read the answer and worked solution →Who brought knowledge of woodblock printing from China to Italy in 1295?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which humanist of 1304-78 stressed close reading of the ancient Greeks and Romans?

  1. Castiglione
  2. Petrarch
  3. Boccaccio
  4. Machiavelli
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Correct answer: B. Petrarch

1. He saw antiquity as a distinct civilisation. 2. Petrarch called for reading the ancient authors. 3. This culture was later labelled humanism. _Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 7, Changing Cultural Traditions._

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Which Roman lawyer used humanitas, root of the word humanities, to mean culture?

  1. Ptolemy
  2. Virgil
  3. Cicero
  4. Caesar
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Correct answer: C. Cicero

1. He lived 106-43 BCE. 2. Cicero used humanitas for culture. 3. He was a contemporary of Julius Caesar. _Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 7, Changing Cultural Traditions._

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Pico della Mirandola wrote On the Dignity of Man in which year?

  1. 1436
  2. 1513
  3. 1528
  4. 1486
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Correct answer: D. 1486

1. He was a humanist of Florence. 2. The work dates to 1486. 3. It praised the exercise of debate. _Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 7, Changing Cultural Traditions._

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