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many other factors also played a role in making the Renaissance possible. People including the Medici family, who were patrons for many Renaissance artists, made Renaissance art possible. Moreover, philosophers who were alive at the time, including Petrarch and Boccaccio, helped lead the Humanist movements which would encourage separation from the Church. Although it is true that the Black Death was not solely responsible for the Renaissance, the effects of this disease contributed to a huge…

A researcher Montgomery Jr. (1957) states that this poem owes its success for many excellent archetype of Renaissance. He says that because the sonnet form and the theme rises from Petrarch in Italy. Women and men relationship is in the top the poetry of renaissance. Furthermore, Sir Walter Raleigh who is one of the most wellknown poet wrote What is Our Life. He explains a contempt of the world viewpoint characteristics (Schools Wikipedia…

MMM notes pages 64-80 Chapter Three-The Renaissance Renaissance- Rebirth is the name traditionally bestowed upon the remarkable outpouring of inteletual and artisitic energy and talent that accompanied the passage of Europe from the middle ages to the modern epoch. Renaissance was the creation of 19th century scholars who looking back on the intense flowering of culture, sought a name to designate it. Renaissance started in Italy around 1300 and continued for three centuries, during which the…

Behind the Masks During the English Renaissance, a new wave of writers—Like Thomas Wyatt, Philip Sidney, and William Shakespeare—aspired to tackle what it is considered to be controversial topics, such as equality, social justice, and sexual desire. However, because of their relationship with the royal court, their reputations in society, and/or the strict religious code, their controversial works were disguised, in which they employ multiple literary devices to either protect themselves from…

The Middle Ages also more commonly known as the Dark Age was a period in time that lasted for a thousand years starting sometime the fifth and officially ending all the way in the fifteenth century. This period in time is mostly characterized in modern day by subjects such as the black plague, the hundred years war, tales of brave knights, rigid class systems and heavy religious influences. As the fourteenth century came about there began to be a gradual transition into what would be known as…