Humanism and Renaissance Europe: A Transition into the Self Throughout The Middle Ages, European society gradually progressed with minor advancements and various developments in religion, while simultaneously experiencing a number of international calamites. ... The Black Death, also known as the Black Plague, spread from the Italian coast of the Mediterranean Sea in a northbound wave of destruction and mayhem that traveled towards France, England, and beyond, killing one in three people. ... A great expansion in education that began centuries earlier now encouraged the revitalization of...

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"Instead of storing up good works, so as to enjoy paradise as the medieval man did, the Renaissance man was interested in all things, enjoyed life, strove for worldly praise and wealth, and had a deep interest in classical civilizations"( Law and Human Rights, Davey). Machiavelli was born at a time of conflict within Florence, Italy, between the republican leaders and the family of the Medici's, to which Machiavelli especially, had a history of opposition towards. ... "The men of the Renaissance era wanted many things--money, power, enjoyment in life--regardless of the moral cost" (L&HR, ...

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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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