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7 Cards in this Set
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St Augustine
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Confessions
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Boethius
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The Consolations of Philosophy
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St. Benedict
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founded western monasticism
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Boccaccio
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Decameron - a collection of 100 tales told by ten young people living in the country in order to escape the Black Death
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Petrarch
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Italian poet whom forecasts renaissance attitudes.
Canzoniere - a sonnet sequence in praise of a woman he calls Laura |
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Florentine Humanism
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includes Ficino, who translates all of plato
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Pico della Mirandola
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Oration on the Dignity of Man
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