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Question | Answer |
Pico Della Mirandola | Oration on the Dignity of Man, ebate the roman church on theological and philosophical questions. focuses on centrality and importance of the individual human being, potential for perfectibility. Humanist manifesto: celebrates human potentiality. |
Petrarch | sonnet 159, celebrates his beloves Laura, refers to Neoplatonic and humanist ideas. master of extended metaphor |
Francois Villon | The ballad of dead ladies. Ballade of Forgiveness. he was a vagabond, and a thief. evoke certain realities about life and death |
Vittoria da colonna | I live on this depraved and Lonely Cliff. member of nobility and friend to prominent artists and writers. inspiration for a number of Michelangelo's poems. all sonnet form. relationship with and love for her husband. Neoplatonic light imagery>popular in Ren. lyric poetry |
Baldassare Castiglione | Book of the courtier, book was very instructive, offered practical advice to the Ren. gentlemen on how to get ahead. a bit naive |
Niccolo Machiavelli | The Prince, book about power: seized and administered. politics=jungle only strongest prevail, maintaining moral standards and ethical behavior is naive. the end justifies the means. |
Benvenuto Cellini | The Autobiography, self-pride and self-confidence, casts himself as a hero. |
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