HUMAN-111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Petrarch, Middle Ages, Liberal Arts Education
12 Oct 2020
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He noted around him the architectural remains of the romans. He conceptualized his own day as being greatly divided from the great glories of the classical period. He devised this wish to revive the cultural ideas of the roman world. He conceptualized the period between 500-1350"s as a middle period, and in. He identified this period ad a middle period as a period of great ignorance and barbarity (which it was not, as mentioned above) Often people do think of the period in this way, even though it wasn"t really the way he thought about it. It has become a catch all negative world. So instead a renaissance architect would build something smaller and rounder (temple of st. peter, rome, 1502) He disdains his past in a similar way to how we think about the past today how people hate disco or .
