HST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Marsilio Ficino, Johannes Gutenberg, Cesare Borgia
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Petrarch (1304-1374) canzionere (song, sonnet sequence) No emphasis on the arts, or ancient greco/roman lifestyles. This time period affects the elite of the society. Wrote the canzionere: essentially, love poetry, wrote in italian, not latin, which was odd. Latin was seen as the: proved you could write brilliant works in a native language (not elite language. Petrarch saw a woman in a church, laura, fell in love, and while he never met her, he dedicated all of his pieces to her. He writes songs 30 years after she died. Birth of secular literature written in a native language. People who study humanities: history, poetry, government. Philosophy was profoundly effected by the humanist/renaissance movement: revival in the works of plato. Leader of an academy where neo-platonism (new platonism) is studied. Two major ideas: idea that there is a spiritual and real chain of being (hierarchy)
