1. Early Renaissance was more secular, compared to later Renaissance, which was more focused on religion. Although both the early Renaissance and the later Renaissance saw the establishment of a form of humanism, they differed. The former humanists did not “subordinate the classics to the requirements of Christian doctrines,” rather, their zeal for knowledge led them to look to the earlier Ancient Greek and Roman pagan texts. More so, Italian Renaissance thinkers “adopted … new views in many fields,” including art and science, philosophy and religion, and politics and education. These new views, in turn, resulted in beginnings of a new kind of high culture, less religious, and more secular for there was an emphasis on individualism, artistic
