Baldassare Castiglione

MLove’s sweet nipples and voluptuous bust! Aphrodisia fruit to quell my lust! Had I the temerity and the conceit to compose a sonnet in the style of John Donne -- using circles and spheres as tropes -- such are metaphors I might use to construct my “strong lines”. And with Donne-like boldness I might even entitle my work: “Areolas of Love”. On the other hand, if I attempted the same task along Petrarchan lines, I’d meter out a couple of stanzas dedicated to a radiant but distance Laura with sapphire

During the 14th Century a new period in time was born. It was called the Renaissance. This was a time of rediscovery when an explosion of new ideas would overturn the medieval world and would continue to spread throughout Europe. During the renaissance a group of people known as humanists created and spread new ideas. Humanism changed how people think and it started the renaissance. Humanism was an idea whose focus was on humans. The focus was on the value and word of each individual and it was based

The Renaissance was a rebirth of the ideas of ancient Greece and Rome that began in the City States of Italy during the 14th century. The cultural resurgence began a new style of living in Europe after the horrors of the black death, and is seen as the beginning of the culture of the modern world. As Wassace K. Ferguson put in his book The Renaissance, the Italian artists grew tired of the darkness of Medieval Times and began to turn to the brighter times found in the classical ages (Doc 7). The

Education and Gender Roles are Direct Causes for the Renaissance. Throughout the Fourteenth and into the Fifteenth Century, there were a number of tragic events that directly caused the need for a revitalization of society. This revitalization was needed to restore hope to the people that were living each day for survival. Some of these events were the destabilization of the Catholic Church with the relocation of the papacy from Rome to Avignon. This would soon be followed by the Black Death

During the Renaissance, Europe’s education system began to change overtime as it came to be challenged by new values and purposes. Education was seen as a way to acknowledge humanistic values through the focus of the classics. Teachings beyond the basics led to emphasis on social fancy, which was later overcome by religious morals that became more prominent. This system shortly came to be criticized for its failures and its insignificant need to people who sought a greater increase in laborers. Before

Education, Gender Roles and Humanism in the Renaissance. Throughout the fourteenth and into the fifteenth century there were a number of tragic events that directly caused a revitalization of society. This revitalization was needed to restore hope to the people that were living each day for survival. Some of these events were the destabilization of the Catholic Church with the relocation of the papacy from Rome to Avignon. This would soon be followed by the Black Death and its mammoth death toll

There are numerous ways in which art “moves” human beings. For centuries, the effect of art has been theorized and questioned. Through my colloquium, I hope to grapple with the ways in which art, made within and for a specific moment and culture, is able to live beyond its historical discourse and still express a profound, multivalent sense of meaning. Looking at philosophical, religious, sociological, and political texts from ancient time to the present, I will investigate the pressing question

Some may not realize how much of today’s society originates from the renaissance, reformation, and the scientific revolution. During these time periods many arrangements took place that altered humanity. In this paper I will be expressing these changes, what caused them, what effects came from them, and the themes of the Christian church, art and literature, and scientific/technological inventions during the renaissance, reformation, and the scientific revolution. To begin, in the 1300’s the study

Elizabethan Poetry I Drama dominates our syllabus but the Renaissance was a Golden Age not just for English drama, but also for English poetry. But what was English poetry? George Puttenham’s The Arte of English Poesie (1589) and Sir Philip Sidney’s The Defense of Poesie (1595): early attempts to think about English poetry as a distinct national tradition. Puttenham and Sidney were concerned to build a canon and help shape English poetry into a tradition capable of rivalling more prestigious

The Renaissance was a period of time when Europeans experienced a shift in thinking. This “rebirth” led to a time of creativity in which they began to think outside the box instead of inside. It sprouted from the Dark Ages and led to the modern era. During the Renaissance, the Europeans began to adopt a new way of thinking that included the increasing presence of art and the idea of individualism, the decline in the significance of the Church, and the arising of the importance of education. The Renaissance