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19 Cards in this Set
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Petrarch
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1304-1374, Italian poet, sonnets, wrote in the vernacular (Italian)
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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1340-1400, influenced by Italian writers, the Canterbury Tales, narrative frame, focus on detail in descriptions of characters
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Boccacio
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Documents the plague and its effects on society, Decameron a series of stories that provide entertainment, moral content, glimpses of late medieval life.
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Mirandola
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Boasted that he had read every book in Italy, synthesis of learning into basic truths, humanity is the pinnacle of God's creation
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Machiavelli
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Pragmatist, the Prince gives instructions on how to get power, morality and its place in politics
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Erasmus
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Christian humanist, cynical, In Praise of Folly satirizes the Catholic Church and over-intellectualizing
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Luther
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Began the Reformation by publishing criticism of the Church, Enchridion gave instruction for religious teachers
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Shakespeare
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Greatest writer in the English language. Plays show classical influences but also baroque fascination with the supernatural, invented new words, lots of puns and word games, iambic pentameter, written so everyone could understand
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Moliere
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French baroque comedy, characters victims of their own vices
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Cervantes
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Spanish novelist, Don Quixote, satire of medieval tales of chivalry, blend of comedy and tragedy, multiple layers of meaning
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Christine de Pisan
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Book of the City of Ladies, stories of famous women, patterned after Augustine's City of God
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Cereta
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Defense of the Liberal Instruction of Women, 2 letters to male humanists and female critics, very attacking, passionate and thorough
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Castiglione
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The Courtier, dialogue in the style of Plato, ideals of chivalry, platonic love, handbook for wealthy aristocrats
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Cellini
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The Autobiography, 1st person narrative, rambling, egotistical account of his sculpting process
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Montaigne
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French, wrote "Of Cannibals", a collection of essays in response to the slaughter of Protestants, contrasts holy war with cannibalism
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Hobbes
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English philosopher during the Baroque period, Leviathan, man is naturally bad, strong government is needed
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John Locke
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English philosopher during Baroque period, very rational and ordered writing, man has innate understanding
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John Donne
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English poet, generation after Shakespeare, intellectual poetry that draws on a variety of resources, themes mostly focused on death and love
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Milton
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Wrote Paradise Lost, an epic poem in blank verse
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