8 4 13 What is the Renaissance Defining the Terms Renaissance Reformation and Humanism Humanism and the Renaissance Why humanism What is it and isn t Who are humanists and when are they active Assumptions Supporting Humanism Contemporary current focus Classics are relevant Intellectualism is relevant Christianity is compatible Three Stages in Humanism Gathering tools documents philology and analysis Humanism and Northern Europe Stressing classical Christianity Humanism and elite culture Terms Bruni Guicciardini Machiavelli Ficino Defining the Terms Renaissance Reformation and Humanism Francesco Petrarch 1304 74 Desiderius Erasmus 1466 1536 Humanism Why Humanism What it is and isn t Studia humanitatis Cicero s Orations copied by Poggio Bracciolini while at the Council of Constance 1417 1 8 4 13 Who are humanists and when are they active Francesco Petrarch Coluccio Salutati Poggio Braccioloini Lorenzo Valla 2 8 4 13 Henry Cornelius Agrippa Johannes Reuchlin Assumptions Supporting Humanism Contemporary current focus Classics are relevant Intellectualism is relevant We call those studies liberal which are worthy of a free man those studies by which we attain and practice virtue and wisdom that education which calls forth trains and develops those highest gifts of body and of mind which ennoble men and which are rightly judged to rank next in dignity to virtue only For to a vulgar temper gain and pleasure are the one aim of existence to a lofty nature moral worth and fame Subjects that provide this education History Moral Philosophy Ethics Rhetoric Literature Pier Paolo Vergerio Christianity is compatible Death of Petrarch 3 8 4 13 Three Stages in Humanism Gathering tools documents philology and analysis Lorenzo Valla On the Falsely Believed and Forged Donation of Constantine Humanism and Northern Europe Stressing Classical Christianity Desiderius Erasmus Polyglot Bible 4 8 4 13 Humanism and Elite Culture Portrait of Castiglione by Raphael ca 1514 15 Title page from the first edition of The Courtier 1528 Marsilio Ficino 5
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