The Renaissance and Reformation
2020; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1002/9781394259779.ch7
ISSN2158-415X
Autores Tópico(s)Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
ResumoThe political map of Italy during the Renaissance, roughly 1350 to 1600, resembled that of ancient Greece. The northern Italian city-states began as urban communes with republican constitutions. Francesco Petrarca, better known as Petrarch, is considered the father of humanism. He regarded Medieval Latin barbarous, and encouraged others to emulate Cicero's style of prose. The period of the Renaissance is normally divided into the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance. The greatest humanist of the Northern Renaissance, some would say of the whole Renaissance, was Desiderius Erasmus. The Renaissance artists continued to use religious themes, but with a new twist. The secular humanism of the Italian Renaissance is evident in its art and architecture. The Catholic Reformation was more than a response to the Protestant Reformation. It was part of a spiritual revival underway in the late-fifteenth century that embraced reform along the lines suggested by the Christian humanists.
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