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years of renaissance
1350-1600
"rebirth"
means renaissance
cause of rena.
crusades
five features of rena.
1. rediscovery of greko/roman roots
2. emphasizes reason;questioning attitude;esperiment;free inquiry
3. began to glorify individual; approve worldly pleasure
4. focus attention on worly matters; secularization
5. achieve greatness in lit, art, science
why rena. in italy(3)
1. center of greek/roman culture
2. had examples of greek/roman culture
3. perfect place - center of Mediterranean
patrons in italy of rena.(4)
rome - popes
venice - wealthy merchants
milan - sforza
florence - medici
humanists consider..
themselves w/ everyday human problems
humanist writing
petrarch
mirandola
erasmus
sir more
petrarch
sonats of love
mirandola
wrote about dignity of human
erasmus
"praise of folly" made fun of church abuses
sir more
utopia
3 vernacular writers
dante
boccacio
chaucer
dante
divine comedy - hell, purgatory, heaven
boccacio
"the decameron" - ppl fleeing from plague telling stories
chaucer
canterbury tales
printing press
gutenburg - movable press
8 rena lit achievements
machiavelli
rabelais
montaigne
cervant
shakespeare
milton
moliere
machiavelli
"the prince" how to get and keep power
machiavelli quote
the end justifies the mean
rabelais 2
gargantua
pantagruel
montaigne
master of essay
intolerance to superstition
cervant
don quixote
milton
"paradise cost" - story of creation
moliere
"the misanthrope"

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