Reniassance Literuary Movement

The Renaissance was the awakening of the rebirth of the long doze of the Dark Ages. After the Dark ages it took a lot of society re-investing to build into what was promise which was material and spiritual gain. For a while the people really thought they were making progress in having a honorable way their perfect existance. One of the reasons historians may have thought the people talked about re-birth is because the word Renaissance precisely means rebirth. During the 14th and the 16th centuries they went through a gothic time related to their living style.

The Gothic time was not for the lower class people it was for the aristocratic landowners. The Aristocratic landowners were losing their power over the lower class people because opportunities for thriving and enrichment were coming from the urban center. Like in Italy they discovered their old pagan traditions. In Greek, and Roman they discovered their mythologies and philosophies and used that as a new inspiration for their artistic creations. During the Renaissance they also adopted a line of thought called humanism.

When the people had adopted humanism, mankind was presumed to have done earthly perfections in a way people could have ever imagined. Because of humanism, people had an insatiable reason of optimize that life was improving further than only one in their life had ever thought of. Although the people had a made a promise to forget the horror they had been through with the Dark Ages, and the Black Death, people could not get over how many lives were lost.

The reason the Renaissance started was because of the Bubonic Plague as known as the Black Plague that spread through Europe like a wildfire. The spread of the Black Plague led to good changes in business and trade, not to long after it started. In one of the places the Renaissance helped with business is Florence which we know today as Italy. Ever since the Renaissance started, Italy began selling wine, oil, cheese, and leather goods. For Italy it was easy to sale their goods because their in the center location for business and trade with North Europe’s countries.

Another reason that caused the Renaissance was the lower class had finally realized that they did not have to stay poor. Once the poor had grasped the idea, they started working hard so that they could build their way up the social chain. The reason they did this was because some people refused to let where they were born get in their way of their financial freedom. What had finally come to the people’s minds was the Renaissance was a time where they could finally think for themselves. They could finally attempt new things to help humanity grow. During the Renaissance some workers finally emerged to be wealthy.

Another reason the renaissance exist is because of government, banking, intellectual development. The government started with lorenzetti's work. Lorenzetti's work reflects on the first factor creating the situation of the start of the Italian Renaissance. What I think was the down fall for the Renaissance’s government was the of money they spent on the wars they had with Ferrara, Florence, Genoa, Mantua, Milan, Pisa, Siena, Verona, Venice, and Vatican. In the 15th century the Duchy of Milan gathered power to emerged as the most powerful political and military group of the High Medieval Northern Italy regrouped in a final successful battle for the separation from the papacy.

In 1454 “Peace Lordi” was the truce between Florence, Milan and the international port city of Venice they opened the door to a future of secular government, and with it come the expansion of the mercantile trade. Then the Medici Bank began, it opened a financial institution that was established by the Republican Medici family. In the 15th century the Medici family represented the second factor in the historical developments that prompted the Italian Renaissance. Creating the deposit, withdrawal, and extraction system, that was the brightest thing they could have done, during that time. The banking system help marchants a lot because now it was not easy for them to get robbed. The Medici Bank helped build an economy throughout Europe.

When under the control of the founder and politician, Giovanni Medici, and later their son joined, Cosimo di Giovanni de’ Medici, the Medici Bank had a large responsibility for the third factor of the Italian Renaissance. The Medici family and some other wealthy patrons had offered some famous people to extend their skills. Some of the people he offered the opportunity were artists, philosophers, and scientists, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Masaccio, and Donatello. The opportunities they offered were to advance their knowledge and technical skill beyond Medieval patronage of the Vatican.

The Italian language was not the language they used to write literature. It was only in the 13th century when the Italian authors started writing in their native vernacular language instead of writing it in latin, french, or provencal. In the 1250’s people started seeing changes in the Italian poetry “Dolce Stil Novo”. Dolce Stil Novo become its own, pioneer by poets like Guittone d’Arezzo, and Guido Guinizelli. The changes of the Italian poetry had been taking place before the Renaissance really began.

When the printing of the books started in the Venice by Aldus Manutius, an increasing number of works began to be published in the Italian language. They were also published in other languages like Latin and Greek. The works expanded beyond the works of theology,furthermore toward the pre-christian eras of Rome and Ancient Greece. By this I´m not saying no religious works were published in this period. Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy evidently represents a medieval world view. Christianity continued to be a major influence for artists and authors, that have their own standard view of influences.

The Renaissance was not an answer to the another literary movement. The Renaissance period was more like their re-birth as they explained it. To me the Renaissance period was more of an act. It was more of an act because people did not think to much about making a difference they made an act, and that act made a big change. One of the acts that I think made a big difference was when the lower class made the change to not let where they were born define their wealth.

The author of the Renaissance is William Shakespeare. He was born on April 26, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom and died in April 23 1616 Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom. William was buried on May 5, 1616 in the church of Holy Trinity. William was married to Anne Hathaway and had three children named Hamnet Shakespeare, Susanna Hall, and Judith Quiney. William Shakespeare is the best selling author in all history he has an estimated four billion copies sold.

In the Renaissance some of the most famous ground breaking intellectuals, artists, scientists, and writers are Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Sandro Botticlli, Donatello, William Shakespeare, John Milon, William Byrd, Willaim Trydale, Titian, Niccolo Machiavelli, Dante, Giotto, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hobbes, Nicoluas Copernicus, Galileo, Rene Descarte, and Desiderius Erasmus. Art, architecture, and science were closely linked during the Renaissance. Particulaly during this time it was rare that those study were so closed together. For exmple, artists like da Vinci embraced the scinctific concept specifily putting it in their work, so can be able to recreate the human body with ooustanding presion. While, architects like Filippo Brunelleschi studied Mathicmatics to engineer and design a large bulidings. Some famous literary works from the renaissnace are ¨A Midsummer Nights Dream¨, ¨Macbeth¨, ¨Romo and Juliet¨ all by Willaim Skakespeare.

In conclusion, the Renaissance was period of change. It changed the way people looked at life. It changed the way people studied science, and mathimatics. I think the renaissnace period was the best period because many people changed the way they think.

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