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16 Cards in this Set
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Meaning
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Rebirth
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Time period
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1350-1600
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What was it?
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A revival of art and learning - go back to the classics of the Greeks and Romans
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Changes?
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New attitudes toward work - being unique
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Church?
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Loss of faith
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Individualism
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Reach for the full potential
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Secularism
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Focus on material world rather than spiritual - here and now
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Humanism
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Revival of antiquity (Greece and Rome)
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Petrarch
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Father of Humanism, Middle Ages were a Dark Age
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Cellini
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Autobiography - wrote of his genius
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Boccacio
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Decameron
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Pico della Mirandola
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Oration on the Dignity of Man - we were created in image of God, and so can achieve anything
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Baldassare Castiglione
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Book of the Courtier - perfect man
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Virtu
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Castiglione - the quality of being a great man in whatever pursuit
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Leonardo Bruni
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History of Florence - first historian, different periods, first to use word "humanism"
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Gutenberg
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Printing press - spread humanistic literature
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