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Renaissance |
The rebirth of the culture of classical antiquity in Italy during the 14th to 16th centuries |
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Patronage |
Financial support of writers and artists by cities, groups and individuals often to produce specific works or works in specific styles |
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Communes |
Sworn associations of free men in Italian cities led by merchant guilds that's sought political and economic independence from local nobles |
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Popolo |
Disenfranchised common people in Italian cities who resented their exclusion from power |
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Signori |
Government by one-man rule in Italian cities such as Milan |
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Petrarch |
-1304-1374 -believed the recovery of classical texts would bring a new golden age of intellectual achievement - changed education w study of Latin classics which led to humanism - promoted vernacular writing |
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Marsilio Ficino |
- Florentine humanist(1433-1499) -began Platonic Academy (Plato's ideas+ Christianity ) - believed highest form of love was platonic love |
