Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) was labeled as the "founding father" of humanism" during the Italian Renaissance. ... He imitated the Latin prose of letter writing in his personal letters, enthralled to discover Cicero's Letters to Atticus in 1345 (Humanism: Italy" 1). His letters became a blueprint for humanists of the Renaissance, with letters becoming the favorite form of prose (Humanism: Italy 5). ... Humanism became a movement of sorts with the appointment of Coluccio Salutati as chancellor of Florence, Italy in 1375. ... From Florence, humanism spread throughout Italy to Venice, Mila...

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1.The Italian Renaissance followed on the heels of the Middle Ages, and was spawned by the birth of the philosophy of humanism, which emphasized the importance of individual achievement in a wide range of fields. ... Though he favored a republic to unite Italy, he believed only a dictator could unite such a quarrelsome area initially. ... During the time period of Italy's destruction and turmoil, he believed that the unification of Italy was an end that justified any means. ... Their methods were rapidly perfected and built upon by other artists of the early Renaissance such as Botticell...

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or carries out this investigation using two parameters in particular, the Italian virtu and fortuna. ... First, in Italian, virtu is masculine and fortuna is feminine. ... As well, Machiavelli presents the people waiting to be ruled as material, and the rule spread by the prince as structure; in Renaissance Italy, "material" and "structure" possessed traditional gender traits. ... It was only in 1512 when France, to whom Florence had professed the traditional allegiance, left Italy and Spain reentered that the republic was totally lost, and Machiavelli expelled to the country by the incomin...

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Love (in Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince) The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli is the book that was based on examples of princes and other rulers of Spain, Italy, and other European countries at the time of Renaissance. ...

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The Prince By: Niccolo Machiavelli Julius Caesar once said, "I came, I saw, I conquered." Niccolo Machiavelli' s novel The Prince, he envisions himself as a ruler and through his successes and failures at political strategy, he achieves greatness through his final achievement of writing a mast...

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