The portrayal of women as passive and quiet within Renaissance literature did not stray far from the image of the Renaissance woman in created works of art. ... Domenico di Tommaso di Currado di Doffo Bigordi, an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence and student of Michelangelo, painted a portrait called Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni. ... Renaissance literature typically characterized women as submissive and quiet. ... As the statue comes to life, the active Hermione becomes a "real being, " proposing that women in Renaissance society were not born passive and quiet, but made to be that ...

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Italy was the birthplace of this movement and development. The Renaissance architecture was quite related to a worldview sustained during that period on two pillars: classicism and humanism. ... The Renaissance brought a change in monarchies, which began to acquire more and more power, take responsibility for the welfare of the whole society. ... Renaissance man conceives life as a stage to be enjoyed before death comes. The Renaissance ideal of man is the courtier: military man and man of letters. ...

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The Shakespeare Authorship Controversy Historians and scholars since the time of the Renaissance have questioned the authorship of Shakespeare's works. ... It is also necessary that the author be fluent, or at least familiar, in many languages, such as French, Italian, Latin and Greek. ... Some examples of this are Hamlet, which was taken from the French Histoires Tragiques; the French dialogue contained in Henry V; Othello, which was based on the 3 Italian Hecatommithi; and both The Rape of Lucrece and The Comedy of Errors had not been translated into English at this point in time...

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The villages adjacent to Tiber river became a powerful city, conquering the rest of Italy and the lands around the Mediterranean Sea. ... Shakespeare does not mention any racism as racism was unknown before Renaissance period. ...

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