Quick Guide to Background Terms Topically

POLITICS

Cannon

Charles V

Comune

Condottiere

Doge

Duke

Ferdinand I

Francis I

Gunpowder

Holy Roman Empire

John VIII Palaeologus

Marchese

Pazzi Conspiracy

Sack of Rome

Savonarola

 

RELIGION

Adoration of the Magi

Angel

Annunciation

Apostles

Baptism

Cardinal

Confraternity

Council of Basel

Council of Trent

Counter Reformation

Disciple

Eucharist

Four Evangelists

Francis, Saint

   

Gospels

Grace

Great Schism

Heretic

Inquisition

Jerome, Saint

Jesuit Order

Jesus Christ

John the Baptist

Mark, Saint

Mary of Nazareth

Messiah

Order

Papacy

Peter, Saint

Pope

Prophet

Reformation

Roman Catholic Church

Sacrament

Saint

Stigmata

Titular church

Trinity

Vatican

Virtues

 

IDEAS

Antiquarianism

Classicism

Dante

 

Harmonic proportion

Humanism

Liberal Arts

Mythology

Neo-Platonism

Paragone

Bartolomeo Platina

Petrarch

Printing

Renaissance

Three Graces

Treatise

Vittorino da Feltre

 

PUBLICATIONS

Alberti's De re aedicatoria

Boccaccio's Decameron

Cennini's Il libro del' arte

Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Filarete's Trattato d'architettura

Francesco di Giorgio's Trattati

Machiavelli's The Prince

New Testament

Old Testament

Palladio's I quattro libri

Serlio's Tutte l’opera d’architettura et prospetiva

Vasari's Lives

Vignola's Regola

Vitruvius' De architectura