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Renaissance
The rebirth of the culture of classical antiquity in Italy during the 14th to 16th centuries
Patronage
Financial support of writers and artists by cities, groups and individuals often to produce specific works or works in specific styles
Communes
Sworn associations of free men in Italian cities led by merchant guilds that's sought political and economic independence from local nobles
Popolo
Disenfranchised common people in Italian cities who resented their exclusion from power
Signori
Government by one-man rule in Italian cities such as Milan
Petrarch
-1304-1374
-believed the recovery of classical texts would bring a new golden age of intellectual achievement
- changed education w study of Latin classics which led to humanism
- promoted vernacular writing
Marsilio Ficino
- Florentine humanist(1433-1499)
-began Platonic Academy (Plato's ideas+ Christianity )
- believed highest form of love was platonic love
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