Artistic Traditions of the Northern and Italian Renaissance
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The Renaissance was a revival or a rebirth of cultural awareness and learning among art, law, language, literature, philosophy, science, and mathematics. This period took place between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. The Renaissance in Italy flourished in the 15th century and spread through...
Effects Of The Northern Renaissance European trade was the key method of spreading Italian ideas during the Renaissance. The city of Florence, Italy was the largest center for international commerce and trade at the time. Therefore, the flow of the Renaissance from Italy to the North can be lar...
What was the Renaissance a rebirth of? What did Petrarch say about the Renaissance? What is Byzantine art known for? During which century did the spirit of the Italian Renaissance spread through Spanish literature? How did cities change in the Renaissance, and what was the most important renais...
Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Central Italian & Northern Italian Schools), 3 vol., colour frontispieces, plates, publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 4to, Phaidon, 1968
The Italian Renaissance is widely regarded by historians as the foundation of the modern age, as it brought in a renewed interest in history, science, philosophy, literature and the arts, and introduced a entirely new way of thinking, called humanism. The Renaissance was deeply influenced by the...
However, Italian literature goes beyond Dante; there are many other classic Italian authors worth reading.Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)Recognized as a crucial figure in the development of Italian Renaissance literary culture, Ariosto is best known for his poem Orlando Furioso, which presents a ...
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References in classic literature ? And if, as I said, it was necessary that the people of Israel should be captive so as to make manifest the ability of Moses; that the Persians should be oppressed by the Medes so as to discover the greatness of the soul of Cyrus; and that the Athenia...