Coluccio Salutati

Romans, believing this was the remedy for the present society. Humanism also encouraged people to help their society by combining the talents. An example of that can be found in Florence where three humanists served as chancellors of the city. Coluccio Salutati, Leonardo Bruni, and Poggio Bracciolini used rhetorical skills to encourage Florentines to revolt against the aggression of Naples and Milan. Both Bruni and Poggio wrote flattering histories of the city. Leon Battista Alberti, another accomplished

Slide 1 Biography.com Editors. "Petrarch Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2015. Who was your person? Francesco Petrarch was a poet whose humanist acts started the beginning of the Renaissance. He is also considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. How did your figure exemplify the Renaissance Era? He was an important figure in the rising of humanism in the start of the Renaissance. The event symbolizes a new interest in classical culture. Slide

glorious impacts on the regions and societies they moved across. Humanism was first publicly spread by scholars from Florentine, Italy, amongst high positions in the government. Francesco Petrarca influenced disciples like Coluccio Salutati , who was a chief administrative officer. Salutati encouraged the growth of humanism by employing other humanists, such as Manuel Chrysoloras, who educated scholars in ancient Greek, in positions of power. While leaving behind scholars to continue spreading this phenomenon

saw the reason to question the church’s consistency in the religious matters and the absolute attribute of things to God or religion. THE CHAMPIONS OF RENAISSANCE HUMANISM The earliest humanists were Dante Della Mirandola, Lorenzo Valla and Coluccio Salutati. But after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, many scholars went to Italy to research and go acquainted with many books together with the knowledge of the Greek traditional arts. In the northern Europe we fin people like Desiderius Erasmus who

The Renaissance and Italy's Decline Definition: The period in European civilization immediately following the Middle Ages, conventionally held to have been characterized by a surge of interest in classical learning and values. Set in the city-states of Italy in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the constant uncertainty, both economic and political, and extreme volatility of the historical situation provided the material for new intellectual, cultural, and social experiments

Michael Wall AP European History Chapter 10 Outline: Renaissance and Discovery : The Renaissance in Italy Some Scholars agree that the Renaissance (1375-1527)was a transition from medieval to the dawn of modern times Different from the feudal differences of medieval times, Renaissance Europe was shaped by growing national and political centralization, an urban economy based on organized commerce and capitalism, and growing lay control of secular thought and cultureThe Italian City State 2. Growth

Mr. Dunbar AP European History Chapter 10 Outline: Renaissance and Discovery Section One: The Renaissance in Italy * Section Overview * Jacob Burckhardt, a Swiss historian, described the Renaissance as the “prototype of the modern world” in his book Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) * In Italy blossomed new secular and scientific views * People became to approach the world empirically and draw rational conclusions based on observation