VIII an annulment with Catherine of Aragon‚ leading to the Anglican Church Dante Alighieri Italian poet wrote "Divine Comedy" exiled from Florence for political reasons Giovanni Boccaccio wrote "The Decameron" in Italian vernacular supporter of Petrarch Sandro Botticelli Florentine painter "Birth of Venus‚" "Primavera" Filippo Brunelleschi Florentine architect designed duomo of Florence cathedral‚ chapel of Pazzi family Michelangelo sculptor by nature‚ painted but hated it; incredible realism
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part of the Renaissance was a literary movement which happened between the upper class who sought to recapture and recreate the classical past of Rome. One of the pioneers of this movement was Petrarch‚ who was dazzled by the language‚ literature‚ architecture and art of ancient classical civilization. Petrarch proposed an appropriate
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David C Literature 12 November 4th‚ 2013 Renaissance Humanism Humanism of the renaissance period was the predominant movement that revolutionized philosophical‚ intellectual‚ and literary customs. It first originated in Italy during the fourteenth century and eventually spread to other major areas in Europe such as Greece. One of the most important changes humanism introduced was a secular viewpoint of history; this was done so by endorsing a nonreligious perspective on history. Humanism
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intense awareness of death‚ and immortalized love‚ Spenser invokes sixteenth century matters which try to delineate a new kind of married love. Firstly‚ Spenser’s poetical theories differ from conventional love sonnets of the time. Appropriating Petrarch (1304-1374)‚ he found new deviations and pushed original standards to newer boundaries. With his different approach of the love sonnet‚ the unattainable married mistress becomes the woman who is free and with whom the poet’s “erotic nature can be
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Zigkeyeah Collier CMST-223 Kovalcheck December 2‚ 2010 Originality‚ Imitation‚ and Copyright “He who imitates must have a care that what he writes be similar‚ not identical”- Petrach‚ Le familiari‚ XXIII (14thc) The foundation of the copyright law is built on the principle and idealistic American value of originality. Recognized as a Western ideal and value in the 18th century‚ originality is culturally constructed and accepted‚ but not truly defined‚ as an aspect of a created
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inspired the term "Renaissance man". As a cultural movement‚ it encompassed innovative flowering of Latin and vernacular literatures‚ beginning with the 14th-century resurgence of learning based on classical sources‚ which contemporaries credited to Petrarch‚ the development of linear perspective and other techniques of rendering a more natural reality in painting‚
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first sight evidence of such connections appears in two fields. There are those instances in which writers and artists comment on one another with appreciation‚ as when Petrarch likenedSimone Martini‚ and Ugolino Verino likened Sandro Botticelli‚ to Apelles. There were also various allusions to the dawning of a new age with Dante‚ Petrarch‚ Cimabue‚ Giotto and Duccio. Of greater moment is the inclusion of arts in humanistic memorializations of the illustrious‚ notably the accounts of artists’ lives written
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with different rhyme schemes. The Italian Sonnet As you might guess‚ the Petrarchan sonnet is named after a 14th century Italian poet named Francesco Petrarch. He is known for his poems about Laura‚ with whom he fell hopelessly in love upon first sight of her in a church. Beautiful and worthy‚ Laura was married and therefore off limits to Petrarch. This did not stop him from writing of Laura in poems such as ’Soleasi Nel Mio Cor‚’ translated into English by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. She ruled
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Italy‚ and one of the earliest humanists. He is most famous for his love sonnets for Laura who was his passion ever since he first met her in the church in Avignon in 1327. Laura was married and on those grounds she rejected his courtship. His book Canzoniere is his love for Laura; from the first moment when he saw her‚ his and her life and later his life when Laura passed away. Petrarca portrayed Laura as a being of supreme beauty both inside and outer beauty. He idealized and mystified Laura to such
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1. Italian Renaissance - earliest form of the general European Renaissance‚ a period of great cultural change and achievement that began in Italy. 2. Jacob Burkhart - historian of art and culture‚ and an influential figure in the historiography of each field 3. Oligarchies – small group that ruled a city and its surrounding countryside 4. Condotierri - the mercenary soldier leaders (warlords) of the professional‚ military free companies contracted by the Italian city-states and the Papacy from
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