Transcript 5 Themes of the Renaissance

Locus of the Renaissance
Medieval Trade
Medieval Guilds
The Plague Changes Society
• What significant ways did the Plague
reorder society?
(Hint: Think about the film!!!!)
Medieval City-States Emerge
Late Medieval City-States
5 Themes of the Renaissance
Italian Renaissance
Characterized by self-conscious awareness
that Italians were living in a new era
Artists of the Renaissance had contempt for
medieval predecessors
5 Key themes :
 Individualism
 Rationalism
 Secularism
 Virtù
 Humanism
1.
Individualism
2. Rationalism
3. Secularism
Pico della Mirandola 1463-1494
Our destiny is not determined by anything outside of us.
God has bestowed upon us a unique distinction:
the liberty to determine the form and value our lives shall
acquire….man is the master of his own destiny!
4.
Virtú
5.
Humanism
Francesco Petrarch 1304-1374
Father of
Humanism
Living, I despise what melancholy fate
has brought us wretches in these evil years.
Long before my birth time smiled and may again,
for once there was, and yet will be, more joyful days.
But in this middle age time’s dregs
sweep around us, and we beneath a heavy
load of vice. Genius, virtue, glory now
have gone, leaving chance and sloth to rule.
Shameful vision this!
We must awake or die!
Sonnet to Laura
If this should be love,
O God, what shakes me?
If Love it is, what strange,
what rich delight!
If Love be kind,
why has it
fangs to bite?
If cruel, why so sweet
the barb
that rakes me?
Baldassare
Castiglione
The Book of
the Courtier
…I am of the opinion that the
true profession of the
Courtier ought to be that of
arms; which I would have
him follow above all else
and be known among
others as bold and strong
and loyal to
whomsoever he serves...
Niccollo Machiavelli
1469-1527
The Prince c.1515
…some virtues will
lead to a prince’s
destruction and
some vices will allow him
to survive..