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    The document discusses key figures and events of the Renaissance period in Italy. It introduces Francesco Petrarch as a religious scholar who critiqued the Church and recovered lost manuscripts. It also mentions Florentine patron family the Medicis, and the "Three Crowns" of Italian literature - Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio - who wrote in the vernacular Tuscan dialect and helped establish prose and poetry. The Renaissance values of humanism placed emphasis on human potential and civic virtues through the study of classical literature. Major scientific thinkers like Copernicus, Galileo, Bacon, and Descartes helped usher in a new intellectual rebirth and scientific inquiry.

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    The document discusses key figures and events of the Renaissance period in Italy. It introduces Francesco Petrarch as a religious scholar who critiqued the Church and recovered lost manuscripts. It also mentions Florentine patron family the Medicis, and the "Three Crowns" of Italian literature - Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio - who wrote in the vernacular Tuscan dialect and helped establish prose and poetry. The Renaissance values of humanism placed emphasis on human potential and civic virtues through the study of classical literature. Major scientific thinkers like Copernicus, Galileo, Bacon, and Descartes helped usher in a new intellectual rebirth and scientific inquiry.

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    Renaissance - Francisco Petrarch was religious man

    known for his sonnets and his critique


    - Rebirth
    of the Church
    - Arts flourished
    - He was a historian
    - Artistic movement
    o Nostalgic for the roman empire
    - Coined by jules Michelet (historire de
    - Rejected scholasticism and dogma
    France)
    - Well-known for recovering lost
    - Florence was the center
    manuscripts in obsure monastic libraries
    Medicis - He revisited non-religious subjects with
    the humanities at its center
    - Family of bankers who ruled Florence
    - He never wrote literature that is why he
    for generations
    wasn’t included.
    - Patron for the arts
    Boccaccio (1313 – 1375)
    Renaissance and Religion
    - Wrote the Decameron
    - Initially emerged from a lorenzo
    o One of the first novels of the
    ghiberti’s bronze door sculpture
    time to discuss everyday human
    - Divinity was modeled after the human
    experiences.
    person
    - Also wrote the On the genealogy of the
    gods of the genities presents a
    mythography or encyclopedic
    Tre Corone of Italian Literature compilation of the complicated family
    - Leafs – experts of the field. relationships of the classical pantheons
    of Ancient Greece and rome

    Commonalities among the tre corona


    Dante (1265 – 1321)
    - Use of Tuscan vernacular
    - Wrote in Italian instead of latin - Invented the nature of their prose and
    - Known for the divine comedy, poetry
    monarchia, the vulgaria eloquentia o Dante
    o Tragedy and comedy are
    defined by its ending What values did humanism espouse?
    - First author to write in the vernacular - Humanism
    that we know as modern Italian o Concept of humanity
    - Divine Comedy – was a work that
    religious but at the same time Renaissance Humanism
    rebellious, creative and mythological
    - Studia humanitas
    o Revolutionary
    o Coined by cicero (105-42 CE)
    o Self-insert of fan fiction
    o Revived by Calucio Salutati
    o Greatest sin: betrayal
    (1331 – 1406 CE)
    Petrarch (1304 – 1374) - Characterized by education in classical
    literature and civic virtues
    o Intends to realize a person’s full - Copernicus
    potential both for their own o Sun is the center of the
    good and the good of society. Universe
    o Galileo Galilei
    The Renaissance as an intellectual rebirth
     defended
    - Characteristics  Ex-communicated
    o Critical analysis of texts
    Renaissance
    “Knowledge is Power”
    - Rebirth and Replanting
    - Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon ()

    - Provided the foundation for the modern


    scientific inquiry
    - Known for The Novum Organon
    - Idols of the mind
    o Idols of the Tribe
    o Idols of the Cave
    o Idols of the Marketplace
    o Idols of the Theater

    “Cogito Ergo Sum” – I doubt therefore I am

    - Descartes

    Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650 CE)

    - Father of modern Philosophy


    o He began the pursuit of the
    Archimedean point of
    philosophy through methodic
    doubt
    - Known for the mediations and his works
    in mathematics
    o The Mediations - Thought dump
    - Dues Ex Machina
    o How do we know we are not
    dreaming
    o How do we know that a evil is
    within us.
    o There is god

    The Scientific Revolution

    - Religion

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