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"Renaissance" Man's Life, Man and God, Literary Characteristics

The document discusses the key characteristics of the Renaissance period in Europe. It began in Italy as a cultural movement that emphasized the study of classical Roman and Greek culture and a focus on humanity rather than religion. This led to advances in fields like science, as well as new ideas like the divine right of kings. Literature from this era adopted humanist philosophy and revived classical works, while the printing press helped spread Renaissance ideas to a wider audience.

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"Renaissance" Man's Life, Man and God, Literary Characteristics

The document discusses the key characteristics of the Renaissance period in Europe. It began in Italy as a cultural movement that emphasized the study of classical Roman and Greek culture and a focus on humanity rather than religion. This led to advances in fields like science, as well as new ideas like the divine right of kings. Literature from this era adopted humanist philosophy and revived classical works, while the printing press helped spread Renaissance ideas to a wider audience.

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"Renaissance"

Man's life, Man and God, Literary Characteristics

"Renaissance" literally means "rebirth." It was a cultural movement that started in Italy and spread all
over Europe. It is considered to be the division between the Middle Ages and the Modern era. During this
period, there was an enormous renewal of interest in the study of classical Roman and Greek culture. The
thinkers of this period, also called “humanists”, believed that the man should be the subject of study, and
not God, as the Church had taught during the medieval period. Based on that, they began to investigate
fields such as astronomy, anatomy and science . One key characteristic of the Renaissance was the idea of
the divine right of kings to rule. It was a time of scientific inquiry and exploration. This was also the time
of the Protestant Reformation, and the invention of the printing press.

Literary Characteristics

The literature of the Renaissance is characterized by the adoption of a Humanist philosophy and the
recovery of the classical literature of Antiquity and benefited from the spread of printing in the latter part of
the 15th century. The world was considered from an anthropocentric perspective. Platonic ideas were
revived and put to the service of Christianity. The search for pleasures of the senses and a critical and
rational spirit completed the ideological panorama of the period. The creation of the printing press (using
movable type) by Johannes Gutenberg in the 1450s encouraged authors to write in their local vernacular
rather than in Greek or Latin classical languages, widening the reading audience and promoting the spread
of Renaissance ideas.

Renaissance Writers

William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, Niccolo Machiavelli, Francesco Petrarca, Dante Alighieri,
Geoffrey Chaucer, John Donne, Edmund Spenser, Giovanni Boccaccio, John Milton, Jean-Baptiste
Poquelin (Molière).

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