His use of the sonnet form of poetry influenced future English poets such as Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare. ... This type of feeling was new in European poetry. ... Although Petrach is well known, today, for his poetry, he is also famous for his contribution to the humanist literary and cultural movement of the 14th and 15th centuries. ...
The Renaissance The Renaissance was a new age when people became less concerned with the mysteries of heaven and more interested in the things around them. We can learn many different things from the age of Renaissance. We can learn how the Renaissance began and flourished in the Italian city-s...
Browning's main theme of poetry was love plots. ... "Along with her theme of love, Browning showed in "Casa Guidi Windows- the "intractable issues of papal power, British Imperialism, and nationalistic mythologizing into a strong and musical poetry."" ... In her poetry she also addressed the oppression of the Italians by the Austrians, the child labor mines and mills of England, and slavery, among other social injustices. ...
Biography Robert Browning was born on May 7,1812. He was born in the city of Camberwell England. He grew up in a house with 6000 books in it. The books were in several different languages such as Greek, Hebrew, Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish. Robert Browning was a very good ...
Humanism is going back to the classics. Humanism isn't just the study of Literature and Philosophy it also includes many other aspects such as architecture and music. Anything that is studying "classic works" to extend human knowledge is considered Humanist. Humanists studied ancient things so t...
The plague was integrated into everyday life to such an extent, that even Petrarch, noted for his poetry of love and longing for the evasive "Laura", could not help but write in a letter to Guido Sette, a lifelong friend, "I was noting down the substance of thought-the pettiness of this life, its brevity, haste, tumbling course, its hidden cheats, time's irrecoverability, the flower of life soon wasted, the fugitive beauty of a blooming face, the flight of youth, the trickeries of age, the wrinkles, illnesses, sadness, and pain, and the implacable cruelty of indomitable death." ...
One of the greatest artists of the Italian renaissance was Michelangelo. His full name was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni and he was a magnificent sculptor, painter, architect and poet. He was the greatest sculptor since the Roman times. Michelangelo was born March the 6th, 1475 i...
The Renaissance peroid wasa marked by a number of changes in military and political affairs of Western Europe.Niccolo Machiavelli born on May 3 1469 and spent his childhood in Florence of the Medici. In 1498 he joined a civil service under the republican regime of Piero Soderini. He also served as...
Francesco Petrarch's poetry had a great effect on the poems of later poets such as Shakespeare and Chaucer. His works were considered to be the first "modern" poems and the inventor of the sonnet, writing over 300 sonnets. Francesco was born in Arezzo, Italy, July 20th, 1304. His family moved to...
THE MEDICI FAMILY"S INFLUENCE ON FLORENCE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY Florence is a city surrounded by rivers. This fact contributed to the success and wealth of Florence in the areas of trade and commerce up until 1348. Once the Black Death took its toll and wiped out 1/2-1/3 of the population ...
Petrarch became known for his poetry, which can be described along with many humanistic writings to be very realistic, critical, and more often than not satirical. ... Michelangelo is known as probably the greatest artist of the Renaissance, excelling in painting, poetry, sculpture, and architecture. ...
Romantic Love In Dante's Inferno and The Lais of Marie De France It is fascinating to take the time out to examine in similarities and differences in the way authors Dante Aligheri and Marie De France impart to their readers their views on romantic love. It can almost be said that the two perspectives are "similarly different." Marie De France, like Dante, has a distinctive literary form. Her narrative twists and female perspective, differentiate her vastly from Dante. She focuses on stories from women's points of view, she involves her female characters much mor...
Sandro Botticelli I chose to write about Sandro Botticelli. The reason that I chose Botticelli is that I love the painting, The Birth of Venus. I was drawn to the beautiful soft colors and the enchanted quality of the piece. The people in the paint...
In 1851 Browning wrote an essay on Percy Bysshe Shelley, and in it he both praised the Romantic poet who had so influenced him, and also explained how he, Browning differed in his own poetic project. Shelley, according to Browning, was a subjective poet, a poet who wrote from the perspective of the ...
Michelangelo's Pieta, one of the most famous works of art, is an enchanting marble statue. I am writing on this topic because, of all the works of art I have come across, this one held my gaze the longest. The more I study the Pieta the more enchanted I become. Thru my writing I will introduce you ...
If one were to gaze upon the statue of "David" by Michelangelo (1475-1564), they would notice the high esteem in which the human body was portrayed. The sculpture almost appears to be a person itself, so real, proportionate, and beautiful that it is uncanny to fathom that it is an interpretation by ...
The Renaissance Period Perhaps one of the most famous Renaissance paintings is the Mona Lisa, painted by Italian artist, Leonardo da Vinci. It is a typical Renaissance painting. It is famous for her haunting, inexplicable smile. The Renaissance/Early Modern Peri...
Although he did not invent the sonnet, it can be found in 12th century Courtly Love poetry, the quality of his work and the use of the vernacular made it very popular and served as a reintroduction of the sonnet form to the literary world. ...
Europe went through vast changes between 1300 and 1600 with astounding inventions in the disciplines of science, astronomy, exploration and art (painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature). This time period, known as the Renaissance, was seen as a new age of learning and thinking with a cult...
The Renaissance was a time of great achievements and cultural change. This "re-birth" marked Europe's transition between the medieval times to modern Europe. According to The Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance began with the merchant class, many whom became patrons of the arts, and included the re...
