During 500-1500 almost everybody was thinking that this time in Europe was a bad time . A time of decline and hate‚ lack of food‚ money‚ population‚ trade‚ etc. also known as the "Dark Ages". The term Dark Ages was created by wise man named Petrarch. Now days people can argue that it was a growth age. This was not a "dark age" because of many changes. For example the Magna Carta. According to document A "No man shall be forced to preform more service for a knight’s ’fee’‚ or other free holding of
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his youth. He strove to raise Italian style to an art form nurtured in both medieval rhetoric and classical Latin prose; he had immense admiration for his great Italian contemporaries Dante and Petrarch‚ as well as for the classical authors. In this sense Boccaccio ’s vernacular humanism contrasts with Petrarch ’s classical humanism. Boccaccio ’s father‚ Boccaccio di Chellino‚ was a merchant from the small Tuscan town of Certaldo. About 1312 he went to Florence and there worked successfully for the
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life during that time and it is considered to be a masterpiece of the Italian prose. From 1350 Boccaccio became involved with Italian humanism and the Florentine government. He was asked to greet Francesco Petrarch. During their meeting‚ everything went well. Boccaccio started calling Petrarch his teacher and Minister and was encouraged to study classical Greek and Latin literature. Boccaccio then began working on his first edition of Genealogia Deorum Gentilium. One of the key reference of classical
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This is a translation of the Italian poem "Rime 140" by Petrarch. The following link - shows the original form and two translations - each poem is different. They are built around the conceit of love as a warrior or knight‚ who‚ in the octave‚ makes bold to declare himself through a blush‚ and is promptly rebuked by the beloved; the sestet finds him running away to hide‚ leaving the poet to reflect on his plight as a faithful servant of a cowardly master. By attributing the offensive‚ cowardly‚ and
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War is done” by: Francesco Petrarch. (pg. 57) Love can be warm and calming if treated with respect. It is embracing in the special times of need when things go down the wrong path of life. When love is disrespected it gets turned into hatred. Hatred is a tuff part of love that is cold and bitter. It is a hard road to follow‚ and also hard to overcome. “That looseth nor locket‚ holdeth me in prison‚ and holdeth me not‚ yet can I ‘scape nowise” by: Francesco Petrarch. (pg. 57) Hatred is a harsh
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scholasticism and the like. This secular attitude eventually paved the way for things such as the Scientific Revolution. Despite this secular humanism‚ Christianity still influenced the humanists of the Renaissance‚ including the "father of humanism" Petrarch. Humanists believed that a refined person must know the literature of Greece and Rome. They strove to imitate the styles of the ancients‚ to speak and write as eloquently as the Greeks and Romans. Toward these ends‚ they "sought to read‚ print
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(Capellanus 3)‚ and became an effective and important tradition‚ lasting over 500 years (cf. Hühn 24). A key figure concerning the spread of courtly love convention was the Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarcha (1304-1374). He wrote the famous Canzoniere with about 300 Italian sonnets using the convention‚ mostly addressed to a idealized women called Laura‚ whom loved with‚ but who did not respond to his love (cf. Roche 1). The name courtly love describes a love convention‚ where a man courts a
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Plutarch‚ but above all the letters and speeches of the orator Cicero opened the classical world anew. What they all emphasized was man ’s capacity for greatness. It was the Italian poet Francesco Petrarca‚ known as Petrarch‚ who ushered in the new humanism. What excited Petrarch was the classical tradition of education — the aim of which‚ as Cicero had explained‚ was to cultivate not a narrow range of technical skills‚ but the single‚ noble virtue of manliness. This idea of virtus went on to inspire
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Why does the Italian Renaissance still affect us significantly today? Filled with a great variety of point of views‚ the Italian Renaissance was a period in history where humans were challenged to do more with their lives than solely worshiping God. The Italian Renaissance came about after a devastating disease known as the Black Plague or the Black Death. The Black Death can be traced back to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia in the 1320s. The epidemic reached its height between the years 1348 to 1350
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grammar‚ rhetoric‚ poetry‚ history‚ and moral philosophy. Francesco Petrarca‚ known as Petrarch‚ is considered to be the founder of Renaissance Humanism. He was one of the most important Renaissance poets who applied the values of ancient Greece and Rome to questions about religious Christian doctrines. He believed in the value of the study of philosophy and literature of the past; he encouraged this. Petrarch was one of the first people to spread the word of humanism. Once he did it spread fast
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