Renaissance Individualism

Further, the emergence of individual interests characterised as humanism or individualism, propagated the development of new pursuits of education and scholarly roles for those who lived under Renaissance era Italian civilisation. This is so due to the relative shift away from the study of religious teachings, to the desire to improve one’s self through a search for knowledge, specifically human knowledge. In particular, during the fifteenth century, statesmen and merchants would often become fluent in the classical languages for the purpose of engaging in study of classical works, such as the Ethics and Politics of Aristotle. In addition,, any town of importance in the Renaissance era possessed a school of Latin, dependent not on the church