Saint Francis of Assisi born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone in Assisi Italy in late 1181 was one of seven children born to Pietro di Bernardone‚ a prosperous silk merchant and his wife Pica de Bourlemont who was a noblewoman. Pietro after returning from business in France gave his son the nickname Francesco ("the Frenchman") when he was an infant‚ this is why he is known as Francis not Giovanni. Francis was a wealthy young man of privilege who served in the military and at one point was a prisoner
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world has ever known‚ though in morals they were sinking to almost incredible corruption. Already in fourteenth century Italy‚ therefore‚ the movement for a much fuller and freer intellectual life had begun‚ and we have seen that by Petrarch and Boccaccio something of the spirit was transmitted to Chaucer. In England Chaucer was followed by the medievalizing fifteenth‚ but in Italy there was no such interruption. THE RENAİSSANCE MOVEMENT first received definite direction from the rediscovery
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Name and origins Cabot’s birthplace is in Italy. In Italian he is known today as Giovanni Caboto‚ in English as John Cabot‚ in French as Jean Cabot‚ and in Spanish as Juan Caboto. The non-Italian forms reflect references to him in the related 15th-century documents. Only one set of documents has been found bearing his signature. These are Venetian testamentary documents of 1484‚ on which he signed as "Zuan Chabotto"‚ "Zuan" being a form of "John" typical to Venice.[3] That he continued to use this
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George F. Cabrera October 6‚ 2013 The Prince and The Discourses and it’s similarities. Reading the books of Machiavelli’s: The Prince and The Discourses I noticed there are many similarities to one another. Machiavelli explains the concept of an ideal ruler that he thinks would be able to govern with great power and adversity from his observation of previous rulers. The Prince is a book written about Tyrants while The Discourses is a book written by lovers of liberty (The Prince‚ Introduction-
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During the two hundred years between 1400 and 1600‚ Europe witnessed an astonishing revival of drawing‚ fine art painting‚ sculpture and architecture centred in Italy‚ where artists began to look back to the way in which Greek and Roman artists had worked. Not many classical paintings had survived‚ but there were descriptions from which artists tried to copy them. Those two centuries which we now refer to as the Renaissance (Rinascimento) was given this name (French for ’rebirth’) as a result of
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with deep metaphysical significance. The "Holy Trinity" is both the most rational and mysterious of images in that it creates the convincing illusion of space within a painting. Tommaso di Giovanni‚ called Masaccio‚ was born in San Giovanni Valdarno on the day of St. John Thomas‚ for whom he was named. Giovanni Cassai‚ his father‚ dies when Massaccio was five years old. His mother remarried and his stepsister’s husband‚ Mariotto di Christofano‚
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him. Rafaello Sanzio da Urbino‚ was born April 6‚ 1483 in Urbino‚ Italy. In 1504 he became Perugino’s apprentice. He was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect. At the time of Raphael‚ Urbino was a cultural center that encouraged the arts. Giovanni Santi‚ Raphael’s father‚ taught him the basic painting techniques and exposed him to the principles of humanistic philosophy. At the age of eleven his father died and had to take over his father’s workshop. Raphael was quickly considered one of the
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The Scientific Revolution was the emergence of modern science‚ replacing the traditional geocentric model of the universe and replacing it with a heliocentric model. The works of Scientists such as Galileo‚ Copernicus‚ and Newton opened up the eyes of European citizens and scientists and changed their outlooks on the world. Scientific success was hard to come by as there were many obstacles because many people had different views and opinions on a certain subject. The work of scientists in the Scientific
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The chamber has shown the affinity and communication of nature and human through its decorative ceiling. There are 34 thematic paintings on panels in the chamber in total‚ the thematic oval panels on the 4 sides of the room showing religious or mythological scenes‚ or representing scenes of production process and trade. The object collection itself was stored in 20 cabinets. The arrangement of this hidden vault room is quite unique‚ instead of showing the collections in a large cabinet‚ Francesco
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Luigi Galvani Clearly‚ animals know more than we think‚ and think a great deal more than we know." (Irene M. Pepperberg ) . Luigi Aloisio Galvani born in Bologna on September 9‚ 1737 and attended University of Bologna where he received a doctorate for studying the human skeleton. Galvani was an Italian physician‚ physicist‚ biologist and philosopher‚ who discovered animal electricity. He is recognized as the pioneer of bioelectromagnetics and this discovery impacted literature ‚ science ‚and other
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