The Growth of Power Claims Based on Classical Models,including Patronage

question 3

Multiple Choice

The growth of power claims based on classical models,including patronage of the arts,occurred in Renaissance Italy due to the:

• A)admiration Renaissance Italians had for the Emperor Nero.
• B)rediscovery and subsequent popularity of Suetonius's Lives of the Caesars.
• C)relative weakness of the Church,which no longer provided an alternate model.
• D)relative weakness of the Holy Roman Emperor,which no longer provided an alternate model.
• E)rediscovery and subsequent popularity of Aristotle's Politics.

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