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At first, Giovanni was not wealthy. His family had very little money. After his mother’s death, due to his current financial situation, Giovanni’s cousin, Vieri di Cambio de’ Medici employed Giovanni and his brother, Francesco to work at his bank. In 1385, he was married off to Piccarda Bueri, who was the mother of Cosimo and Lorenzo. Following his marriage, he took a risk and invested in his cousin’s bank. He moved to Rome to become an executive partner of Vieri’s southern

doctrine. Then, beginning in the 1300's, many scholars began to discover classic works by the likes of Plato and especially Cicero. Cicero, who was a Roman philosopher and statesman, studied something he called "humane studies." Cicero influenced Francesco Petrarch, who started the renaissance revival of antiquity, when he discovered his lost letters. Petrarch also had a huge impact on many other people to come along later such as Boccaccio and Salutati. These humanists and many others thought that

After the long and cold effects the Middle Ages had on most of Europe, during the very beginning of the renaissance people began to wonder why they should let the Catholic Church control their lives. A sense of free thinking and enlightenment became part of every thinker’s mind after the Catholic Church began to lose influence over the state. A weakened catholic church meant that the state was allowed to do whatever they thought was right and what was necessary. The people of Italy experience something

The Amoretti, Italian for ‘Cupids’ was written by the famous English Renaissance poet Edmund Spenser in the 16th century. It is a sonnet cycle that begins with his courtship and ends with his marriage to Elizabeth Boyle. Sonnet 64 is a blazon form sonnet with an abab bcbc cdcd ee rhyme scheme. In this sonnet, the speaker explores the body of his lover and appreciates the scents that it exudes. The first quatrain begins with a kiss. He leans in but doesn’t complete the act. “Coming to kiss her lips

and Filippo Brunelleschi’s Dome. The Mona Lisa was painted between 1503 and 1506 by Leonardo da Vinci, and is one of the most famous paintings in the world today. The painting is a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, and was painted for her husband, Francesco del Giocondo. Humanism has impacted this portrait in various ways. Lisa’s smile has been described to be so “enigmatic” [1] that people are still trying to interpret the feelings behind her smile. The painting is greatly impacted by humanism as it

Will Beck The Trade of Necessities Unlike China or Russia who have more land than they could ever use, Europe had to look beyond their own borders for more land to allow their country and people to continue to grow. With intentions to originally find new ways to sail to India, Columbus stumbled into the Americas. Though Europe didn’t get the trade route they wanted, they found a new one that would change the world of trade by satisfying land need along with resources that were new to the world. Although

At the age of eighty-eight, the extraordinary Renaissance artist, Michelangelo proclaimed his last words, “ancora imparo,” Italian for “I am still learning,” when he took his last breaths. From a young age, Michelangelo knew that anything was possible with some curiosity, dedication, and attention to detail, more importantly, he believed that even in old age we can still learn. Michelangelo is one of the greatest artists in history, his works have transcended the centuries and left a pathway of influence

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

AIDA The term and approach are attributed to the American advertising and sales pioneer, E. St. Elmo Lewis. Elmo Lewis articulated three principles to which an advertisement should conform: “The mission of an advertisement is to attract a reader, so that he will look at the advertisement and start to read it; then to interest him, so that he will continue to read it; then to convince him, so that when he has read it he will believe it. If an advertisement contains these three qualities of success

Looking for Aibrandi Change is inevitable in life. Everything around us is changing as time flies. That includes our emotions, our actions and our perspectives on things. Looking for Alibrandi is a novel about a teenage girl’s struggles in life and how she changes her views on others and herself through a series of events which eventually leads to her ‘emancipation’ by the end of the novel. Throughout the novel, the author, Melina Marchetta clearly demonstrates the concept of change and changing