Although times have changed and centuries have passed by‚ some parts of life will always remain the same. The relationship between a man and a woman is complicated . Count Baldasarre Castiglione described the difficulties of these in his book‚ The Courtier‚ where he describes the perfect courtier. The book‚ at some point‚ describes the benefits of Platonic relationships over sensual ones. One recurring theme that sensual relationships often bear is pain. During the Sixteenth Century‚ Sir Thomas
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education‚ and education for women. The benefits of education in Italy and the United Kingdom during the Renaissance changed over a hundred-year period‚ starting in 1528. Education was used to create the perfect courtier‚ someone who had a passable knowledge in the humanities. Castiglione believed that the purpose of this knowledge was to entertain women with writing‚ and judge the writings of others (Document 3). When Guicciardini was a young man‚ there was not very much weight put on the education
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Renaissance Education DBQ Exercise During the Renaissance‚ scholars became more interested in the humanistic features of society‚ and humanistic educators based their teaching models on Greek and Latin classics. Renaissance education was One apparent purpose of a Renaissance education was to praise the value of useful education‚ through the teaching of the classics‚ mainly Greek literature that was written by Greek philosophers‚ mathematicians and other important figures. Some criticised
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Rachael Markley Ophelia Discussion 1. What might have led to Ophelia’s downfall was that she intentionally killed herself to maybe save herself from any further shame that would fall upon her because she has been dishonored by Hamlet and she might be possibly “with child” and also to the loss of her father. In Act 1 Scene 3 pg.45‚ Ophelia tells her father that Hamlet has proclaimed his love to her‚ and then in Act 2 Scene 1 pg.79‚ she tells him that Hamlet has gone crazy and was acting as such
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Ideal of Social Grace The characters’ dense‚ colorful manner of speaking represents the ideal that Renaissance courtiers strove for in their social interactions. The play’s language is heavily laden with metaphor and ornamented by rhetoric. Benedick‚ Claudio‚ and Don Pedro all produce the kind of witty banter that courtiers used to attract attention and approval in noble households. Courtiers were expected to speak in highly contrived language but to make their clever performances seem effortless. The
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focused on themes of faith and religion and was insignificant. As the Renaissance Era continued‚ however‚ art became more valued. As time progressed‚ only certain people could learn the skill of painting. In a book called The Book of Courtier‚ the writer‚ Castiglione‚ emphasizes‚ “children of gentle birth were required to learn painting at school‚ as worthy and necessary accomplishment. … a public law was passed forbidding it to be taught to slaves” (Doc 2). During the Renaissance Era‚ social class
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Medieval to Renaissance: How the World Changed The idea of state building is one that is important to empires‚ nations‚ and it is often on many powerful people’s minds. The period of state building that began with the Renaissance and continued into the so-called modern period has often been attributed to the invention of gunpowder. According to Rabb‚ “gunpowder warfare was the most unprecedented of the new circumstances that shaped the Renaissance.”1 This suggests that gunpowder was an entirely
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courtesans Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Despite being surrounded by Denmark’s leading lights Hamlet’s intellect is prominently displayed by his rhetorical brilliance and beauty‚ with his paronomasia evoking the courtly teachings of Baldassare Castiglione. No rhetorical flourish goes unused during Hamlet’s many conversations‚ speeches‚ and soliloquies. The famous “To Be Or Not To Be” soliloquy contains both anaphora and asyndeton in the same sentence‚ “to die: to sleep/To sleep‚ perchance to dream
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The problems of defining humanism in relation to art are compounded by the notion of‘renaissance’ art. Some scholars unhesitatingly speak of ‘the arts in the age of humanism’ and even ‘the art of humanism’; others resolve to treat the arts in terms independent of any such associations. This division reflects a healthy suspicion about relying on broad categories such as ‘humanism’ and ‘renaissance’ in historical inquiry generally and in art history and criticism in particular. There is an increasing
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that they should not be given up under any circumstances. The 16th century produced some of the greatest works of Renaissance literature‚ such as The Prince by Machiavelli‚ in which he tells the ways a ruler should gain and hold power‚ The Courtier‚ by Castiglione in which he described what a perfect Renaissance man would be‚ and many others. It was also during the 16th century that the influence of this literature began to be seen in the rest of
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