Analyze the ITALIAN RENAISSANCE c. 1300-1550 — humanism, city-states (Florence, Venice, Milan, Rome), and the Medici family's patronage system
Exercise Difficulty 4 ~10 min hist.g7.s.ex_05

Source Analysis

MG-7 Diagram
EIGHT-Question Source Card — laminated 8.5x11 double-sided REPLACING G7-Fall 7-Question Source Card with NEW 8th questio

EIGHT-Question Source Card — laminated 8.5x11 double-sided REPLACING G7-Fall 7-Question Source Card with NEW 8th question for G7-Spring multi-perspective encounter analysis. All 7 G7-Fall questions retained + Q8 ENCOUNTER MULTI-PERSPECTIVE: From whose perspective is this encounter told? Whose perspective is missing? How would the same event read from the missing perspective? Includes sentence frames in English + Spanish + Nahuatl/Quechua/Persian/Arabic transliteration glossaries; available in 14pt dyslexic font + audio version.

Prompt

Apply MG-7 Q1 SOURCING + Q5 NMAI + NEW Q8 ENCOUNTER MULTI-PERSPECTIVE to Pico della Mirandola's 1486 Oration on the Dignity of Man. Write one sentence per question (3 total sentences). Specifically address: whose 'man' is Pico's 'man'?

How it's presented
mode text
Answer criteria
type rubric essay
rubric
points
3
criterion
Q1 SOURCING — names Pico's context (Florence + Medici circle + 1486)
points
3
criterion
Q5 NMAI — names whose voice is silent (women + non-elite + non-Christian)
points
3
criterion
Q8 ENCOUNTER MULTI-PERSPECTIVE — names that Pico's 'man' was male/Christian/elite
Hints
  1. Pico's Oration was delivered to Roman papacy + Christian humanist audience.
  2. Christine de Pizan 1405 already raised whose 'man' question 81 years earlier.
Misconceptions to watch
  • Treating Pico's 'man' as gender-neutral 'human'
  • Ignoring the Christian-elite class of Pico's audience
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