The Evolution of the English Sonnet or The Corruption of the Italian Sonnet Petrarch (Francesco Petrarcha) (1304-1374): The Petrarchan Sonnet Background: • Wrote a collection called variously Canzoniere (canzone means song)‚ Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (Fragments of vernacular things)‚ or Rime Sparse (Scattered Rhymes) • Considered the Father of the sonnet‚ from Ital. sonetto‚ meaning a little song or sound • Wrote a volume containing 366 poems in the Tuscan vernacular; 317 of which are
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Humanism and the Renaissance Founded on the ideals of Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarca during the late fourteenth century‚ Renaissance humanism centered itself on humanity ’s potential for achievement. Although God is credited for creating the universe‚ human beings are the ones credited for developing and sustaining it. The shift was away from understanding the world through faith and towards a broader intellectual and scientific understanding of it. A humanist‚ in this context‚ was
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E***** W****** Professor W***** B****** The World of Humanism and Reform 15 February 2013 Humanism: The Egalitarian Movement The Humanist philosophy has egalitarian roots because of its ideal confidence in humans to decipher truth from falsehood without any need for external intervention. This assurance that people have no need for others but only themselves proves that each relies on his own understanding‚ therefore each man may reach his own conclusions instead of relying on the more privileged
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Agathe Detanger 3B Is love better conveyed through tragedy or comedy? To start off‚ I would like to analyze the words comedy and tragedy. In drama‚ tragedy is a form in which the characters are impelled to an unhappy outcome by forces or flaws beyond their control. Nowadays‚ tragedy describes extreme misfortunes‚ such as great personal loss or a calamity involving widespread suffering. A comedy on the other hand can be full of surprises or foolish situations that we don’t expect and it almost
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Piano In the early 1700s‚ a new modification to a classic favorite‚ the harpsichord‚ changed the world of music across all genres. In 1709 a new instrument‚ classy and sophisticated‚ yet loud and dynamic was brought into the world by Bartolomeo Cristofori. The piano has continued a well loved legacy of many instruments predating it‚ while changing its mechanics significantly. The mechanics of the piano consist of three main components. They are: a stretched string made from high-carbon steel
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Mort Rosenblum- Chocolate: A bitter sweet saga of Dark and Light pg.3 -Swedish Botanist names Cacao bean Theobroma:Elixer of the gods -Chocolate is 60 million industry -laborers from euatorial jungle picked pods pg.4 -chocolate has been around for 5 centuries pg.6 -In one year the world can produce 3‚000‚000‚000 tons of cocoa beans -much about cocoa remains a mystery -Young trees of theobroma seek dank shadows of tall tropical hardwoods but older like more sun -grow in only 20 degrees
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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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woman was to man as man was to a prince; if a prince were to serve a common man‚ it would be considered damaging to his reputation. As Gadol poses in her article‚ women were no more than an accessory for men (pp. 132-133). In On Wifely Duties‚ Francesco Barbaro lays out a comprehensive “manual” for wives that further explains this relationship. Chapter two of the document best represents how a wife was expected to suppress her emotions and behave for her husband’s benefit where he writes‚ “I therefore
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Humanities 303 Course 1 Project Yolanda Revels Professor Davina Dandridge September 16‚ 2014 I. Introduction of the Dark Ages The dark ages is this tumultuous era‚ when no one actually really knows exactly what happened and really would not like to consider it dark although that was time of the fall of Rome‚ where through the eventual light of progress revealed at the dawn of the middle Ages‚ It was a lot going on an implied judgment being that in that particular period in European history from about
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