Italian Renaissance

Italian Renaissance

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   Period from about 1350 until 1600.
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  Contact with theclassics. Secular themes. Individualism. People should develop their talents: politics, sports, arts. Shools taught studia humanitas: Greek, latin, history and philosophy.
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   Sonnets byPetrarch.  First modern autobiographies (Cellini)  The Book of the Courtier by Castiglione.  The Prince by Niccoló Machiavelli.  Humanist scholars challenged long accepted traditions, assumptions and institutions.
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   Stronger townlife.  Wealthy and succesful communities.  Independent city-states.  Social groups: wealthy mercahnts and bankers, shopkeepers and artisans, peasants. Signori ruled as dictators.
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   The Medici. Economic prosperity based on banking and textile industries.  1490, began to decline. Brunelleschi´s sculpture of Issac entry of the east doors of Baptistry in Florence.
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   1500, leadingrenaissance city.  The Pope and the cardinals made up the wealthiest and most powerful class.  Large churches and palaces with magnificent paintings and sculptures to decorate buildings.  Rebuilding of St. Peter’s Basilica.
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   Linkbetween Asia and western Europe.  Hihs quality glass. Marciana Library  Republican government: Council of ten.  Known for its artistic achievements: Titian, Tintoretto, Sansovino, etc.