Boccaccio grew up in Florence‚ but it was in Naples that Boccaccio began what he considered his true vocation‚ poetry. Works produced in this period include Filostrato‚ a later source for Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde‚ Filocolo a prose version of an existing French romance‚ and La caccia di Diana a poem in octave rhyme listing Neapolitan women. Boccaccio returned to Florence in early 1341‚ avoiding the plague in that city of 1340. Although discontented with his return to Florence‚ Boccaccio continued
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city of Florence which suffered from continuous political instability. Machialvelli‚ a humanist‚ had a practical approach to politcs. He came up with the idea that “the end justifies the means”. He argued that whether a government is “good”‚ can only be determined by looking at whether it is effective. 5 Machiavelli worked under the Republican government led by Piero Soderini. In 1512 when the Spanish troops defeated the republican army the Medici family took over rule of Florence. As a result
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the earliest biographers. In this case his birthplace was possibly in Tuscany‚ perhaps in Certaldo‚ the town of his father. He was the son of a Florentine merchant and an unknown woman‚ and almost certainly born illegitimate. Boccaccio grew up in Florence. His father was working for the Compagnia dei Bardi and in the 1320s married Margherita dei Mardoli‚ of an illustrious family. It is believed Boccaccio was tutored by Giovanni Mazzuoli and received from him an early introduction to the works of Dante
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The Renaissance From the fall of the Holy Roman Empire to there was a dark age in Europe where all technology and thinking stopped. Europe was a battleground for feudal lords and their knights trying to control the surrounding territories. The dark ages started to end when Pope Urban the 2nd called for the crusades of the holy lands and the city of Jerusalem. The renaissance began in Italy‚ and spreading to the rest of Europe by the 16th century‚ its influence was felt in literature‚ philosophy
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Michelangelo‚ Degas and Picasso. I will analyze the way they depicted their ideas of beauty‚ compare and contrast the concepts the artists used to transmit their ideas. Giotto Di Bondone (1266/7 – 1337) was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. In the transitional period between International Gothic and Renaissance‚ Giotto was among the first to make use of proportions to represent human figures. He worked on perspective and rounded sculptural forms that appear
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Giotto di Bondone‚ was born 1266–67/1276‚ near Florence Italy and died Jan. 8‚ 1337‚ in Florence at the age of 70. Before his death‚ the city of Florence appointed him head Florentine architect and chief of public works. He is believed to have been a pupil of the Florentine painter Cimabue and to have decorated five different chapels. He became so widely
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medium. Michelangelo and Verrocchio both represent David in different ways through the meaning they convey‚ the skills and techniques they use‚ and the beauty that they each portray . Michelangelo and Verrocchio are both artists from the city of Florence‚ Italy. In this piece both artists were trying to portray the biblical scene of David fighting Goliath‚ and winning. Their backgrounds have a major influence on the way they
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preferred style with many Italian painters who adopted it and made it their own‚ such as Berlinghiero‚ Guido da Siena‚ Coppo di Marcovaldo and Cimabou. This style also made its way into sculpture through the Gothic style. The competition held in Florence for the execution of the east doors of the Baptistery‚ the Romanesque structure across from the cathedral where all Florentine citizens were baptized‚ marked the end of the Proto- Renaissance era on 1402.
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Leslie Burlingame A LIFESAVER & HERO: Florence Nightingale What is a hero? In my view a hero is someone that goes out of their way to do things for other people then worry about themselves and their very devoted to what they love to do. My hero is Florence Nightingale; she changed the hospitals and saved lives with her determination‚ compassion‚ and hard work. Nursing was once an occupation with little respect: people did not think you had to have special training or skills to be a nurse
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Leonardo was young he got little of formal education‚ but he got basic reading‚ math‚ and writing. At the age 15‚ he became an apprentice to a sculptor and painter to Andrea del Verrocchio. When Leonardo was 20‚ he got offered by the painter’s guild of Florence‚ to become an independent master. At about 1482‚ he painted his first commissioned work‚ The Adoration of the Magi. Shortly after
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