It is a blend of concern for the history and actions of human beings, mainly the ancient Greeks and Romans, such as, Cicero, Ceaser, and Augustine, with the belief that man was at the center of the universe. ... Christian humanism came to mean individualism and the value of life in the present. ... This was one of the decisive steps away from the church and towards a humanistic approach to life. ... Based on his studies of Cicero, Petrarch believed that there had to be more to virtue than religion. ... In His book, De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (On the Remedies for Good and Bad Fortune...

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Therefore, Livy was in a good position to obtain primary source information regarding the major key players of the demise of the Republic. ... Gracchus was a quaestor serving under Scipio Aemilianus in the Third Punic War, and supposedly realized the need for land reform while passing through Etruria and seeing that all of the land was worked by slaves, rather than Romans (Plutarch, Life of Tiberius, 8.7). ... It was after this that Gracchus, perceived as acting like some sort of tyrant by the Optimates, was murdered by a gang under their control (Plutarch, Life of Tiberius, 19.5). ...

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