HIST-338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Leonardo Bruni, Albertanus Of Brescia, Quadrivium
28 Nov 2020
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Giovanni boccaccio (1313 1375) was a disciple of petrarca"s. He too began his career as a classical scholar but soon moved on to creating his own imaginative literature. His masterpiece one he repudiated in later life because of its supposed immorality was the story collection known as the decameron. Perhaps the most moving feature of early humanism was the circumstance in which it was born. Amid all the calamities of the fourteenth century famine, plague, economic depression, war, social upheaval, and ecclesiastical division the younger generation of writers emphasized a worldview that focused on the immediate and the particular. The world may have no longer made sense, the larger truths that had been the focus of medieval life may have been drawn into question, that did not mean that one had to give in to despair. The humanism of the early renaissance clung to and celebrated such simple glories.
