When the Middle Ages fell, a new era began to rise. The Italian Renaissance sparked due to inspiration of secularism and humanism. The Italian Renaissance was an era of amazing arts, literature, sciences, music, etc. Secularism and humanism led to new philosophies that revived and unified the broken society, such as restoring the old ways of the successful Greeks and Romans. What caused this great surge of evolution and innovations was the Black Death, a catastrophic epidemic killing millions. Because the Catholic Church provided no protection or explanation, the people lost faith. This loss of faith sparked the Italian Renaissance by introducing secularism and humanism. Secularism and humanism created this new idea called “patronage”, which
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Even though the Black Death was a devastating disease that killed a vast amount of people, with this new philosophy as its outcome, there can only be great thing coming. This philosophy, founded by those who gave up on the Catholic Church, rejects any forms of religious faith or worship (Citation), hence allowing the people to focus on better and more productive tasks in order to restore society. Now the people began to understand that instead of dedicating all of their time to something or someone that may not even exist (God), they should be thinking about themselves more and improving …show more content…
While growing up, Petrarch found an interest in studying classical literature, especially Roman writers such as Cicero and Virgil (Citation). When his love, Laura, supposedly died as a result from the Black Death, he focused on the reformation of Italy. He was the first to develop the idea of recreating the Ancient Rome society. He studied their golden years and was inspired to use their ways of life to reform their society. His idea brought him to become the Italian Ambassador. Gaining a higher position helped influence society to practice humanism (Citation). Petrarch and his works inspired several future
Even though the Black Death was a devastating disease that killed a vast amount of people, with this new philosophy as its outcome, there can only be great thing coming. This philosophy, founded by those who gave up on the Catholic Church, rejects any forms of religious faith or worship (Citation), hence allowing the people to focus on better and more productive tasks in order to restore society. Now the people began to understand that instead of dedicating all of their time to something or someone that may not even exist (God), they should be thinking about themselves more and improving …show more content…
While growing up, Petrarch found an interest in studying classical literature, especially Roman writers such as Cicero and Virgil (Citation). When his love, Laura, supposedly died as a result from the Black Death, he focused on the reformation of Italy. He was the first to develop the idea of recreating the Ancient Rome society. He studied their golden years and was inspired to use their ways of life to reform their society. His idea brought him to become the Italian Ambassador. Gaining a higher position helped influence society to practice humanism (Citation). Petrarch and his works inspired several future