B although it might not be elite households consist

B. Although it might not be elite, households consist of men taking change
and women taking care of the house and the children. Men always had
control during this period while elite men had even more control and a say
over the politics, religion and other thingsssssss
III. Lusanna and Giovanni
A. Giovanni had the power to overturn the sentence because he knew the
Medicis. The witnesses Giovanni chose also shows that there was a clear
class divide amongst the witnesses. With the power of Giovanni’s money
and witnesses, Lusanna ultimately lost the case.
B. After Giovanni gets convicted he goes to Rome to use his power from the
Medici’s to get it overturned.

C. Florence was run by the merchant guilds with strong banking ties. The
most powerful was the textile guild to which Giovanni’s family, the de
Casas, belonged.
D. Women, on the other hand, were basically stuck in the Medieval Period.
Women were not considered citizens and thus were denied political rights
and were required to have a man represent them and account for them as
seen in Giovanni and Lusanna by Lusanna needing her brother to
represent her in court.
What changed early modern Europe more: art and ideas, war, or disease and
environmental change?
I. Started off with the Renaissance
A. It was the age of new ideas and art and it helped Europe go from a simple
lifestyle to a place with culture and historical value.
1. Da Vinci - did everything (Renaissance man)
a) Introduced anatomy--education of the body
b) humanist
2. humanist
II. Buildings marked significance throughout the cities
A. Brunelleschi
1. Brunelleschi left his mark with the Dome
B. Ghilberti
1. helped with the Dome (competition vs. Brunelleschi)
C. Michelangelo
1. created iconic artwork like David.
III. Religious reform
A. Erasmus
1. Born: Herasmus Gerritszoon, son of priest
2. becomes: Desiderius Erasmus, Humanist
3. Rejects monastic life
4. Courts want him, he needs them
5. “Patron Saint of Networkers”
6. Christian Humanist works
7. published religious works → rewrote the new testament and
Praise of folly
8. attacks degener’ g,’’’’’’’’’[ating church, politics
9. reform happening
10.big reformer
11.through publications
12.important for the spread of ideas
13.patron saint of networkers
14.one of the wanderers
B. Savonarola
1. Bonfire of the Vanities
2. He led the Bonfire of the Vanities where people burned their
luxurious items because they were thought to be of sinful qualities
C. Oration on the Dignity of Man

1.
A book by Giovanni Pico that compares man to fate/god. It
eventually gets him in trouble with the church because the Pico
believed that it’s up to the man to choose his fate and to celebrate
mankind--to have secular ideas that challenge the church.