- What was new about the culture and art of the Italian Renaissance? Why has the nature and meaning of the Renaissance been a subject of intense debate ever since historians adopted the term in the nineteenth century?
- What was the Italian Renaissance a 'rebirth' of? Does the label adequately cover the changes at work in fifteenth-century Italy? Explain.
- What case can you make that the Italian and European Renaissances were still part of the Middle Ages?
- Why did Renaissance art emerge and flourish? How big a departure was it from previous trends in art?
- What made the Italian peninsula so suited to the growth of Renaissance ideas and ideals? How do we see this illustrated in the cities of Rome, Florence, and Venice?
- Why do we see the sacking of Rome in 1527? Compare this to other points in history when we have seen Rome invaded and how the events of 1527 are similar or different?
- What factors made Venice unique among the Italian Renaissance cities? Why was Venice the most exotic and cosmopolitan city in Europe?
- Compare and contrast the experience of Jews in Renaissance Venice with Jews in other parts of medieval Europe?
- What was renaissance humanism? Why did renaissance humanism and renaissance individualism supply the foundational cornerstones of Renaissance cultural and intellectual life? How is Aldus Manutius's work an example of Renaissance humanism?
- Discuss the new ideas and techniques that shaped Renaissance art. How were artists connected to the historical and economic worlds of the Italian Renaissance? Explain.
- How did the ideals, interests, and techniques of the Italian Renaissance spread throughout Europe? In what ways did the European Renaissance differ from that of Italy? Why?
- Why was the Renaissance, at its humanist core, a movement for intellectual improvement? Why did the spread of this essentially intellectual phenomenon ultimately make Europe more distinctly European?
- What lasting effects did the Renaissance have on European history?
- In what ways do the opening vignettes of Petrarch's journey, Cassandra's speech, or Bellini's painting reveal key themes of the chapter?
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