Geoffrey Chaucer (c ) Canterbury Tales Bureaucrat, diplomat, court poet Spent some time in Italy Translated the Romance of the Rose into (Middle) English
Renaissance Humanism: Study of Classical works to emulate virtues and learning of ancient world Understand and address human position in world through Classical tradition Christine de Pizan (c c. 1429)
“Three Crowns of Florence”: Dante Alighieri ( ) Francesco Petrarch ( ) Giovanni Boccaccio ( )
Dante Alighieri ( ) The Divine Comedy InfernoVirgil PurgatorioBeatrice ParadisoSt Bernard of Clairvaux 1290s Involved in politics 1302 Exiled from Florence
Francesco Petrarch ( ) 1341 Poet Laureate of Rome Defender of poetry Advocate of study of Roman culture, incl. original Classical Latin
Giovanni Boccaccio ( ) From Certaldo or Florence Writer and diplomat Advocates study of Classical Greek Decameron (completed 1358)Fabliaux
Marsilio Ficino ( ) Head of Platonic Academy in Florence Soul seeking to free itself from dictates of destiny Seeking abstract qualities closest to divinity
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ( ) Quest for truth Free will as means to great good or evil Possibility of rising to angelic near-divinity
Pseudo-Hermes Trismegistus Corpus Hermeticum (1st-3rd c. AD) Kabbalah
Giotto di Bondone (c ) Masaccio (1401-c. 1428)