humanistic Classicism. b. secular humanism. c. Classical secularism. d. Classical humanism. Answer: d 5. The father of the new movement to recover‚ edit‚ and study ancient Greek and Latin manuscripts is generally regarded to be a. Talleyrand. b. Petrarch. c. Pliny the Elder. d. Pope Julius. Answer: b 6. Which of the following stressed the importance of Classical education and hard work in the cultivation of virtù? a. Alberti b. Ficino c. Pico della Mirandola d. Castiglione Answer:
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sources and being able to understand and read the vernacular of the time. Many felt that resurgence of the need to learn was credited to Petrarch. Petrarch was an Italian scholar and poet and he was considered to be one of the earliest humanists. Having found the letters of Cicero‚ he is often credited with being the cause of the 14th century renaissance. Petrarch has been called “The father of Humanisms” due to his ideas that helped to shape the Renaissance. AS humanisms spread more through Europe
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lines that has a specific rhyme scheme written in iambic pentameter.” The flowering of the sonnet came with Petrarch‚ a generation later. It was Wyatt who introduced the sonnet in England. He wrote much earlier but his sonnets were published in 1557‚ a year before Elizabeth was coroneted. He was deeply influenced by Petrarchan and out of his 32 sonnets‚ 17 are the adaptation of Petrarch. Most of them follow the Petrarchan pattern. Each has an octave followed by a sestet. In between the octave
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of lines” (lines 6-7). The speaker clearly does not follow the traditional tonal style of a sonnet‚ but instead uses a sarcastic tone to make fun of them by mocking the style in which they are written. Lastly‚ the speaker seemingly takes a jab at Petrarch who is an “Italian poet regarded as the father of the sonnet” (Mays‚
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overview of Spenser’s well known sonnet sequence‚ the Alnoretti sonnets‚ Gcusing primarily on formal elements and literary influences. It will offer analyses of three sonnets fiom the Amoretti. The influence in particular of Italian court poets like Petrarch‚ and the reworking of the sonnet will be explored. The earlier mentioned conflict between the Christian and Platonic visions especially of love and eroticism will be touched upon. To begin with‚ in what follows immediately‚ we will examine some aspects
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Renaissance scholar Petrarch‚ the term referred to medieval Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. As Petrarch so eloquently puts it‚ the “dark ages” received their name because of a lack of progress in education‚ social and entertainment‚ however‚ the “dark ages” saw dramatic rise in new national and cultural identities across the European continent. By replacing one vast large empire‚ new smaller ruling monarchies such as the Germanic tribes and the Frankish empire developed. Petrarch also argued
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‘Amoretti’ describes the various changes that take place in the lover during the courtship. It follows the tradition of the poet Petrarch‚ whose sonnets dealt with a wooing male lover. Petrarch arranged his sonnets into ‘sonnet consequences’ or ‘sonnet cycles’‚ in which series of sonnets were linked together by a common theme based on the various aspects of the lover’s relationship. Spencer also arranged his ‘Amoretti’ in ‘sonnet sequences’. Spencer himself evolved his own structure for the English
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be interpreted in a variety of ways. Petrarch whose poetry was about the idealistic approach to love‚ caused for several Renaissance writers to revisit them and translate them to represent different meanings. Basically‚ Sir Thomas Wyatt in his poem "The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbour" and Henry Howard‚ Earl of Surrey in his poem "Love That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought‚" both explored the varying view of the original poem created by Petrarch. Their views on the aspect of love helped
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during the Medieval period‚ the Renaissance is incredibly unique in the sense that the people made a self-conscious and deliberate push to move away from the medieval ways of thought. This realization began with the teachings of Francesco Petrarch. Francesco Petrarch strongly believed in the concept of humanism‚ with a focus on the education of man. Petrarch’s works and accomplishments
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end of the tale‚ the Clerk admonishes the audience‚ telling all women they should be “constant in adversitee / as was Grisilde.” Here Chaucer appears to following the Petrarchan mould. To further emphasize this kinship‚ Chaucer once again cites Petrarch‚ immediately after the preceding admonishment regarding emulation of Griselde: “therefore Petrak writeth this storie‚ which with heigh stile he enditeth.” This seems a quite sincere debt of inspiration and gratitude‚ especially since it comes
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