My Experience with Being Away from Home in Italy There I was‚ holding onto my suitcase‚ standing in the airport about to board my plane. I was fifteen years old‚ going into my sophomore year of high school‚ and I was going to Italy for ten days with my best friend and a tour group from his school. For months‚ we had been counting down the days until we leave. The day was finally here and everyone around was full of excitement. Everyone else had been on planes multiple times in their lives. As
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Politics of the Renaissance 1. In the sixteenth century‚ Italy had many centers of power. In each you could find ambitious rulers‚ such as the Medic in Florence‚ the Pope in Rome‚ or the doge in Venice. 2. Each ruler knew that his success greatly depended on the people who advised him. So rulers surrounded themselves with brilliant courtiers. What was a courtier and what did a courtier do? A courtier was a well-educated person who served in the ruler’s court. Courtiers’ jobs included giving
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for/reinvention of classical humanism. Describe the works in detail‚ discuss their internal symbols and larger social‚ cultural and political significances re attitudes to classical humanism C15 Italy Humanism intro Renaissance patrons understood the power of imagery and used it to extent their fame Courts throughout Italy were thriving centers of artistic activity and vied with each other for prominent humanist scientists‚ writers‚ architects‚painters and sculptors Humanist subjects were taught in schools
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their freedom and no longer excitement‚ when art and literature blossomed depended on lords. Some freed serfs migrated and groundbreaking scientific advances were made. Over the course of about 300 years ‚ the Renaissance spread from its home base in Italy to western and northern Europe. The effect was like a sunrise making its way across the land. To understand the changes the Renaissance produced‚ it helps to review what European society was like before it arrived. The time period before the Renaissance
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realm of painting and sculpture‚ as opposed to God and the Church. People now not only put god into their painting but humans too. Another great factor of Start of Renaissance was a trade. By the 1400s Florence and Venice were a big trade city of Italy. The trades with the Ottomans brought them massive amounts of money to the towns.
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Angelo Secchi‚ S.J. Angelo Secchi’s Mission: Angelo Secchi was a Jesuit sometimes referred to as the ‘Father of Astrophysics’. After growing up in Reggio‚ Italy‚ his parents forced him to leave his hometown and move to Rome‚ once there he began his studies into the humanities and philosophy. Angelo became a great success in his work and made many large leaps in the field of Astrophysics‚ he pioneered stellar spectroscopy (the light spectrum of stars in the solar system) and he also made the first
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Renaissance Report The Renaissance began in Italy in the fourteenth century and extended in England past the middle of the seventeenth century. Renaissance means “rebirth” and it applied to this time period because it was a period where there was a rebirth of Greek and Latin ideas. Florence was the focal point of intellectual trends and artistic accomplishments and also the home to Leonardo Da Vinci. Da Vinci was born on April 15‚ 1452. His father‚ Ser Piero‚ took custody of him very shortly after
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Charlemagne was born into a royal family which means he was destined to become royalty later on. He was born around 742 and was the son of Bertrada of Laon and Pepin the Short who became king in 751. Pepin divided the kingdom equally between him and his brother. After his brother died and it was passed on to his nephews‚ Charlemagne murdered them and seized their territories. As an adult‚ Charlemagne displayed a talent for languages and could speak Latin and understand Greek‚ among other languages
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Brad Hill C103 Scalabrini 1 Dec‚ 2016 The Stablemaster In sixteenth century Italy‚ one of the most equivocal and difficult friends to Italian rulers was a man also known as the “scourge of princes‚” Pietro Arentino. Demonstrating his personal wit and fantasy along with the ornate comedy of Renaissance theatre‚ Arentino wrote The Stablemaster‚ published in 1533 in Mantua. This five act comedic play portrays a practical joke played on an unnamed stablemaster by the Duke of Mantua. This play demonstrates
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Lodovico Ariosto Lodovico Ariosto is one of the great humanists of the Renaissance. He was poet from Italy who had a large impact on the Renaissance. Ariosto was born September 8‚ 1474 in Reggio Emilia Italy. He grew up in a neighboring city Ferrar and had a good education. His first teacher was Luca Ripa‚ who was a humanist and he taught Ariosto grammar and rhetoric. Ariosto’s father forced him to study law and he didn’t like it all‚ but his education came to an end when his father died in 1500
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