history rena notes
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- years of renaissance
- 1350-1600
- "rebirth"
- means renaissance
- cause of rena.
- crusades
- five features of rena.
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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)
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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)
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rome - popes
venice - wealthy merchants
milan - sforza
florence - medici - humanists consider..
- themselves w/ everyday human problems
- humanist writing
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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
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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
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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
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gargantua
pantagruel - montaigne
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master of essay
intolerance to superstition - cervant
- don quixote
- milton
- "paradise cost" - story of creation
- moliere
- "the misanthrope"