An excellent introduction to the history of Europe during the tumultuous 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries.
The Story of the Italian Renaissance, 2nd Edition
Rich in detail, effortlessly weaving the Biblical worldview throughout, this history covers European history from the rise of the Italian city-states in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries to the conclusion of the Thirty Years' War in , and the Restoration of the monarchy in England in In 99 lessons, we learn of the rebirth of learning, art, and science, first in Italy, and then throughout the continent, and also the parallel reformation of the Church, with which the rebirth was intimately intertwined.
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The roots of these artistic developments are too complex to be explained by a simple interest in classical culture.
Only in the world of learning is the link between the Renaissance and the ancient world unmistakably clear. Only among Petrarch and his followers in the 14th and 15th century is the rebirth of the past rinascimento in Italian a conscious aim. Petrarch, Boccaccio and humanism: In Florence, in April , Petrarch makes his first influential convert to the cause of classical studies. He is visited by an admirer, Boccaccio , nine years younger than himself, who has written a biography of Petrarch but has not previously met him.
The encounter changes Boccaccio's life. He is in the middle of writing the work for which he is now famous, the Decameron. After completing it, probably in the following year, he abandons Italian literature - writing henceforth only in Latin and devoting himself to tracking down original manuscripts of classical texts.
Boccaccio is just one of the many followers of Petrarch who visit ancient monastery libraries in search of forgotten Latin manuscripts. They travel to Constantinople to bring back trunkloads of Greek parchments.
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They clamber among ancient ruins to note the inscriptions. They copy out their findings and present their manuscripts to friends soon the invention of printing will greatly speed up the spread of these texts. They form academies echoing Plato's academy in which they read learned papers on classical themes. They attempt performances of music and drama in what they believe to be the classical style. The members of one academy in Rome are even arrested for indulging in pagan classical rites.
Scholars of this kind become known as humanists, implying an admiration for the finest achievements of the human race. Human excellence and virtue is now seen as valuable in itself, in this present world of ours, rather than as a necessary qualification for entry to a world beyond.
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An emphasis on the next world has characterized medieval teaching, broadly described as scholasticism. Humanism, in contrast to scholasticism, represents the cast of mind of the Renaissance. Beginning as a movement in Italy in the 14th century, it finds some of its greatest adherents in northern Europe as late as the 16th century - in influential figures such as Erasmus and Thomas More.
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Italian scholars of the 14th and 15th century, followers of Petrarch in their reverence for classical culture, search through libraries for ancient texts. Copying out their discoveries, they aspire also to an authentic script. They find their models in beautifully written manuscripts which they take to be Roman but which are in fact Carolingian.
The error is a fortunate one. The script devised for Charlemagne's monastic workshops in the 8th century is a model of clarity and elegance. Bracciolini, employed as secretary at the papal court in Rome from , uses the ancient script for important documents. To the rounded lower-case letters of the the Carolingian script he adds straight-edged capital letters which he copies from Roman monuments.
By contrast his friend Niccoli adapts the Carolingian script to the faster requirements of everyday writing.