Locus of the Renaissance

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Locus of the Renaissance
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Medieval Trade
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Medieval Guilds
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The Plague Changes Society

• What significant ways did the Plague reorder
  society?
• (Hint Think about the film!!!!)

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Medieval City-States Emerge
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Late Medieval City-States
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5 Themes of the Renaissance
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Italian Renaissance

• Characterized by self-conscious awareness that
  Italians were living in a new era
• Artists of the Renaissance had contempt for
  medieval predecessors
• 5 Key themes
• Individualism
• Rationalism
• Secularism
• Virtù
• Humanism

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1. Individualism
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2. Rationalism
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3. Secularism
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Pico della Mirandola 1463-1494
Our destiny is not determined by anything outside
of us. God has bestowed upon us a unique
distinction the liberty to determine the form
and value our lives shall acquire.man is the
master of his own destiny!
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4. Virtú
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5. Humanism
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Francesco Petrarch 1304-1374
Father of Humanism
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Living, I despise what melancholy fate has
brought us wretches in these evil years. Long
before my birth time smiled and may again, for
once there was, and yet will be, more joyful
days. But in this middle age times dregs sweep
around us, and we beneath a heavy load of vice.
Genius, virtue, glory now have gone, leaving
chance and sloth to rule. Shameful vision this!
We must awake or die!
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Sonnet to Laura If this should be love, O God,
what shakes me? If Love it is, what strange,
what rich delight! If Love be kind, why has
it fangs to bite? If cruel, why so sweet the
barb that rakes me?
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Baldassare Castiglione
The Book of the Courtier
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I am of the opinion that the true profession of
the Courtier ought to be that of arms which I
would have him follow above all else and be known
among others as bold and strong and loyal to
whomsoever he serves...
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Niccollo Machiavelli 1469-1527
The Prince c.1515
some virtues will lead to a princes destruction
and some vices will allow him to survive..