Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

the “wife”  Ex. “On The Family”-Leon Battista Alberti  Humanist writers  Baldassare Castiglione is the 1st humanist writer 1528—Wrote “The Courtier”= Renaissance man 101  1500s-1600s: The treatise influences social life in Europe  Pico Della Mirandola (1463-1494) wrote “Dignity of Man” in 1486 Humans are half-holy beings that are able to do the impossible because we are like God  Dante Alighieri wrote, “Divine Comedy” in 1321. The “Divine Comedy” is an allegorical trilogy about a trip…

In 1440, Johannes Gutenberg invented a new type of movable print- the printing press. Gutenberg was a goldsmith born in Mainz in 1397, and went on to develop his press in the Holy Roman Empire. He saw the printing press as a financial opportunity, due to the high cost of books at the time. Prior to his groundbreaking invention, knowledge was very much limited to the royalty or the religious order because attaining access to any sort of literature was a painstaking task. In order to have a copy…