The Renaissance: An Overview
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The Renaissance:An Overview
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Abstract
In history it can often be difficult to find a beginning and ending to a movement; indeed, some movements that are truly influential have no real ending. Often, history is just not that neat. The Renaissance has no storming of the Bastille, posting of a thesis, or significant military campaign to mark its beginning; rather, this period can be seen as the continual development of ideas, events, and innovations of the late Middle Ages.
Contents
- The Renaissance: An Overview
- Renaissance Art and Science
- Church Corruption
- The Great Plague
- Christian Humanism
- Rise of National Monarchies
- Dante and the Italian Communes
- Church Corruption and the Conciliar Movement
- Medieval and Renaissance Art and Architecture
- The Copernican Revolution
- The Newtonian Cosmos
- Roger Bacon: “On Experimental Science”
- Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron
- Petrarch: Letter to Lapo de Castiglionchio
- Petrarch: Letter to Francesco Nelli
- Petrus Paulus Vergerius: “Concerning Liberal Studies”
- Christine de Pisan: The Treasure of the City of Ladies
- Leon Alberti : On Painting
- Vespasiano da Bisticci: Portrait of Cosimo de’ Medici
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man
- The Croyland Chronicle: Battle of Bosworth Field
- Surrender Treaty of the Kingdom of Granada
- Alhambra Decree
- Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus
- Christopher Columbus: Letter to Raphael Sanxis on the Discovery of America
- A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama
- Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly
- Niccoló Machiavelli: The Prince
- Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
- Giorgio Vasari: “Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine Painter and Sculptor”
- Michel de Montaigne: “Of the Education of Children”
- Galileo Galilei: Starry Messenger
- Letter of Cardinal Bellarmine to Paolo Antonio Foscarini concerning Galileo’s Theories
- Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy