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Explore the impact of Renaissance writers such as Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Machiavelli, who wrote in the vernacular and influenced modern self-expression. Discover their works and their views on politics, love, and humanism.
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Outcome: Renaissance Writers The Renaissance
The Renaissance WritersFriday 10/7 • Objectives: • Discuss how the Renaissance changed Man’s View of the World. • Warm-Up Question: • See next slide • Agenda: • DBQ: The Renaissance continue • PPT/Notes: Renaissance Writers • Activity: Dante’s Inferno • Homework: • Goal Sheet, Unit 5, The Renaissance & Reformation: Due Tuesday 10/11 • Quiz: Unit 5, The Renaissance & Reformation: Tuesday 10/11
Warm-up: Describe the two paintings. List at least two similarities and two differences between the two paintings. The Renaissance
Renaissance Writers • Changes • Many writers followed Dante who wrote in the vernacular • Vernacular: Writers wrote in their native language rather than Greek or Latin • This could include Italian, German, English, and French • Renaissance writers wrote for self-expression or to portray the individuality of their subjects- started trends that modern writers still follow
Renaissance Writers • Dante • Italian poet, writer, theorist, philosopher, and political thinker • Born in Florence, Italy • Referred to as the “Father of the Italian language” • Wrote “The Divine Comedy” • Epic poem about Dante’s travels through Hell, Purgatory, & Heaven • Broken up into 3 parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisio
Dante’s InfernoRead the passage from the Inferno and complete the following
Renaissance Writers • Petrarch • Sometimes called the father of humanism • Great poet- wrote in both Italian and Latin • Wrote sonnets (14 line poems) about a mysterious woman named Laura • Little is known of Laura other than she died of plague in 1348
Sonnet about Laura • Sonnet 292 • The eyes I spoke of once in words that burn,the arms and hands and feet and lovely facethat took me from myself for such a spaceof time and marked me out from other men; • the waving hair of unmixed gold that shone,the smile that flashed with the angelic raysthat used to make this earth a paradise,are now a little dust, all feeling gone; • and yet I live, grief and disdain to me,left where the light I cherished never shows,in fragile bark on the tempestuous sea. • Here let my loving song come to a close;the vein of my accustomed art is dry,and this, my lyre, turned at last to tears.
How does one get to be the Father of Humanism? • By putting classical philosophical ideas into a Christian framework–at least that’s how Francesco Petrarca did it. In Roman Catholic Europe many of the ideas of ancient Greece and Rome were not likely to be accepted unless they could be reconciled with the Christian faith, and Petrarch did so in his writings. His basic idea was that the study of mankind, as such, was a viable and important field for Christian people, thus laying the groundwork for later Renaissance figures to read and popularize classical history, literature, and philosophy–with its “man as the center of all things” foundation point.
Renaissance Writers • Boccaccio • Wrote the Decameron • Told in Italy during the Black Death • About 7 women and 3 men who hide in a villa for two weeks and tell a different story each night • A series of realistic, sometimes off-colored stories • The Decameron presents both tragic and comic views of life
Renaissance Writers • Machiavelli • Wrote The Prince • Explains how a ruler can gain power and keep it in spite of his enemies • Said most people are selfish, fickle, and corrupt • Not concerned with what was morally right but what was politicallyeffective • This may involve misleading your people
What did Machiavelli say? • Here the question arises - whether it is better to be loved than feared? The reply is, that one ought to be feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved… Men are less concerned about offending someone they have cause to love than someone they have cause to fear. Love endures by a bond which men, being scoundrels, may break whenever it serves their advantage to do so; but fear is supported by the dread of pain which never goes away…. I conclude that since men love as they themselves determine but fear as their ruler determines, a wise prince must rely upon what he and not others can control.
How Machiavelli are you?Agree or Disagree • The best way for a leader to rule his people is to tell them what they want to hear. • A leader should take action no matter if that action is morally correct. • A good leader ignores the will of the people an does what he thinks is best. • Most people are simple, easily fooled and greedy. • Leaders may break promises to solve problems of the state. • A leader does not need to be honest with his people. • Before anything else a leader must be powerful and strong • If you must attack your enemy it must be so severe an attack that we should not fear retribution • Anyone who completely trusts others is just asking for trouble. • It is better for a leader to be feared than it is to be loved • Add up the number of AGREE then subtract from the number of DISAGREE
The Protestant ReformationMonday Tuesday 10/11 • Objective: • Discuss the political, social and economic factors that helped bring about The Reformation. • Explain Martin Luther’s reason for protesting against the Roman Catholic Church. • Warm-Up Question: • Read, “The Renaissance and Reformation”. Answer questions that follow. • Agenda: • PPT/Notes: Renaissance Writers • Something special • Station Activity: Martin Luther & Protestant Reformation • Homework: • Goal Sheet: Unit 5 R & R: Due Thursday 10/13 • Quiz: Unit 5, R & R: Thursday 10/13
The Northern Renaissance • Late Beginning • Late origins the north (15th century) • North recovering from the plague • Ideas spread • As Italy and the north traded the ideas spread • dominated by Monarchs who sponsored art • Christian humanism • Challenged church ideas – supported idea that church should reform society
Northern Renaissance Writers William Shakespeare Thomas More Romeo and Juliet, etc… Utopia: Perfect Society
Shakespeare (English – late sixteenth –early seventeenth centuries • Romeo and Juliet • Julius Caesar • Hamlet • “What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties [talents], how admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, [understanding], how like a god.”
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. Shakespeare in the Vernacular • All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts"
Thomas Moore ( English – sixteenth century) • “… Where no man has any property, all men pursue the good of the public… In utopia, where every man has a right to every thing; they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity; and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties; neither apprehending want himself, nor vexed with the endless complaints of his wife.”
Renaissance Writers Result: Renaissance writers wrote in vernacular and about people and life rather than about God and set many trends that are still used today by modern writers.
Printing helps spread new ideas • Johann Gutenberg • Created a machine based on movable type. • Presses paper against a tray full of inked movable type • Gutenberg Bible first full book of printed type • Major Effects of Printing Press • Made quicker. Books cheaper. More info. for society. Discoveries in many fields. • Increase in desire for learning. Rise in literacy. • Published legal proceedings. Laws clear, people understand their rights. • Question political structures and religious practices • End of the Renaissance • New artistic styles and ideas appeared but Renaissance ideas continued to influence.
Which do you think has had a greater impact on society; The Printing Press or The Internet??
