ARTH 2231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Secularism, Verisimilitude, Oligarchy

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Introduction: defining the renaissance: italian peninsula, made up of small city states a. i) duchies, kingdoms, oligarchies, republics (a. i. 1) Woman kissed in public in savor ok, not in florence: language development b. i)dante, boccaccio, petrarch (b. i. 1) Developed italian vernacular as literary language b. ii) development parallels development of art in renaissance b. iii) florence claimed to be capital of literature (birthplace of italian renaissance) (b. iii. 1) Different dialects b. iv) venice tied to ottomans, naples tied to spain and africa: like dialects in different places, art developed differently c. i) venice (c. i. 1) (c. i. 2) (c. i. 3) Gothic style continued much longer than other places: rinascimento, rinascita, jacob burckhardt, civilization of the renaissance in italy (1860) a. i) individualism a. ii) a. iii) a. iv) Secularism (in opposition to religion): now we think more moderately. Capitalism: francesco petrarca (1303-74), africa (1338-43) b. i)one of the founders of humanism (b. i. 1) (b. i. 2) Humanists differed from scholastics (like st. thomas aquinas) (b. i. 2. a) (b. i. 2. b) Sought to revive ancient knowledge b. ii) most important writer was cicero (b. ii. 1)

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