#Renaissance (1500-1600)
#History_of_English_Literature
#Introduction_to_Renaissance
A Bridge between Ancient and Modern Period
Comes after Dark Ages
Longest movent
Started in Italy (15th C to end of the 17th century)
Renaissance means Rebirth | Revival
Creative works
Italy wanted to understand Greeks and Romans Lit.
Humanism ( Man is central interest )
Italy ( Florence and Venice) then spreads everywhere is Europe ( by the end of 15th century)
So, Renaissance in Europe ( 1500-1600)
Famous Italian Thinker
Machivavelli (1469-1527)
Creative Period
A New World View : Progress, new attitude towards culture and learning , knowledge is emphasized
Individual achievements
Spirit of adventure (1492 Columbus discovered America), (Copernicus 1530,On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres)
Reasons:
Merchant Class + Traders | Black Death and population decline | Discovery of Greek Literature
Renaissance Art : Studied classics + Copied them
3 Great Artists : Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519),Michelangelo (1475-1564),Raffael(1483-1520)
Paper and Printing
Humanist Literature : Francesco Petrarch +Dante + Boccaccio (Humanism is started by them in Italy, then spread other countries of Europe)
In England (Tudor dynasty, Henry 8)
Sir Thomas More Book: Utopia
Daughter Elizabeth 1st Queen of England in 1558 ( PROTESTANT BACK + Spain attacked on England, defeated by England)
English Renaissanc: literature is focused
Golden Age in Literature
Age of Shakespeare in Europe