MERCANTILE

• Related to commerce or trade

PATRON

• Someone who gives money or other support to a person or group

LORENZO DE MEDICI

• Spent large sums of brilliant light

HUMANISM

• A cultural movement of the renaissance based on the study of classical works

SECULARISM

• The view that religion need not be the center of human affairs

VERNACULAR

• Everyday spoken language of the people

NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

• Example of secular writing was the prince

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