HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Petrarch, Mont Ventoux, Renaissance Humanism
13 Nov 2020
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He developed a fixation on a woman who was not his wife. The black death was the most apparent crisis in his lifetime. Laura"s death only intensified petrarch"s dedication of the beloved. His interests were more poetic than political: renaissance humanist. The renaissance didn"t invent love for the classics. Scholastic thinkers like aquinas had an appreciation for the non-christian, pagan classics. His obsession with the classics was much more extreme. He was happy to denigrate the scholastics for obscurity. The notion of humanism as a curriculum was lacking: humanism. His criticisms of the overly practical dante made him out of touch with later humanism. Many italian humanists would valorize practical or civic engagement on the basis of classical ethics. Petrarch remained a reverence for traditionally revered christian figures. He also loved augustine and other church fathers. He was helping to forge a new humanist paradigm. He was still operating in the older paradigm.
