HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Michel De Montaigne, Civil Service, Christine De Pizan
18 Jan 2017
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The renaissance (cid:498)rebirth(cid:499: back to golden age. Grandi nobles and merchant families (old money) Popolo grosso new merchants and banking people (new money) Popolo minuto common people, workers, better living than country side. Lorenzo medici (1448 1492) big spender, bankrupted state: couldn"t buy mercenaries to defend state from northern neighbors. Total world long distance trade in 1500 could be carried by. Only high valued goods were carried great distances (silk, porcelain, spices, precious metals) one 21st century cargo ship. Development of new educational program / way of seeing the world: the humanities. Humanista involved with secular school education. Francesco petrarch: father of humanism, worked in italian rather than latin, championed using italian as literary expression (etc. poetry) Christine de pizan: known by france, strong, powerful, individual voice, recognized as 1st women writer. How a ruler can hold on to power. Written in italian: modern political thought, (cid:498)bad christian(cid:499, exiled from florence, read a lot of classical work.
