HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Petrarch
Document Summary
Was a mercantile place - didn"t have to compete with the monarchy - was able to function for the well being of society. People were starting to see things related to the ancient past with there own world. People realized there was a disjunction between ideas and society. Problem : marcus tullius cicero was pagan - his ideas and thoughts weren"t formed by religion. Had to address this question - petrach was the person who addressed it. Moved to south as france, and was a letter writer for the papal court. However, he was cut of from the city of florence. His father thought he should have been a lawyer. At university - he got into ancient literature. In cicero - he analyzed the ideas of cicero. He saw that the people of the past were good people b/c they had essential humanity and how to live on earth.
