1. Trivia Tuesday August, 13, 2016 Today’s Agenda: Warm Up: Home Fun:
Wrap-Up Historical Thinking Skills
Interactions / Summary
The Renaissance – Meaning and Society
Home Fun:
Answer the EQ to Text Notes pgs
Text Notes (TN) – pgs (EQ2)
Warm Up:
Take out the piece of evidence you brought to prove one of the skills you worked on yesterday.
Explain how that piece of evidence proves that what you said happened really did happen.
3-5 complete sentences
Periods
3 & 4

2. Humanism
and the Italian Renaissance

3. The Middle Ages
Talk in your groups and come with at least 3 characteristics of the Middle Ages (think of your summer work. How were people divided? How did people make money? Who/what dominated European life? What problems did Europe Face?

4. Middle Ages Vs. Renaissance
Middle Ages (pre – 14th C)
Renaissance - (post 14th C)
fragmented, feudal society
agricultural economy
church-dominated thought, culture
Calamitous
Black Death
100 Years Wars
political centralization, nationalist feelings
urban, commercial-capitalist economy
growing lay/secular control of thought & culture
Conflict – Italy consistently invaded

5. Feudalism – a social and political structure
Renaissance Social Structure

6. Trivia Tuesday August, 13, 2016 Today’s Agenda: Warm Up: Home Fun:
3 Gratitude's / Warm-Up
The Renaissance
Home Fun:
Terms – due Friday
Work on interactions and the EQ for your first set of notes
Warm Up:
Read over your notes. Highlight important information (use a color coding, at least 4 colors – dates, people, events, important terms) and add in your interactions.
Write down three interesting things you learned about the renaissance and why they are important.
3-5 complete sentences
Periods
3 & 4

7. The Renaissance French for “rebirth” Origins: Italy, 14th c.
(from re [again] and nascere [to be born])
Origins: Italy, 14th c.
“High Renaissance,”
Art flourished most during this period

8. Milan – Sforza Family
One of the richest cities, it controls trade through the Alps.
Venice
Sitting on the Adriatic, it attracts trade from all over the world.
Florence – De Medici Family
Controlled by the De Medici family Bankers, who became great patrons of the arts.
Genoa
Had Access to Trade Routes
All of these cities:
Had access to trade routes connecting Europe with Middle Eastern markets
Served as trading centers for the distribution of goods to northern Europe
Were initially independent city-states governed as republics

9. Understanding the Renaissance
The Values:
Humanism
Individualism
Secularism
The Vehicles:
Commerce
Invention

10. Classical Studies Humanism Classics “the study of humanity”
From studia humanitatis
coined by Cicero to describe the education of a cultivated human being
Classics
Prominent works of Greek, Roman, and Biblical literature
Emphasis: original languages

11. Classics in the Christian Era
St. Basil the Great (c )
Bishop and Theologian
Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature

12. Classics in the Christian Era
St. Thomas Aquinas ( )
Summa Theologica
Attempted to reconcile Aristotle’s philosophy with Christian teaching

13. Classics in the Christian Era
Classical literature seen as a means to an end…

14. The Rebirth Petrarch Petrarch (c. 1304-1374)
of Classical Studies
Petrarch
Petrarch (c )
“Father of Humanism”
“The First Tourist”
Recovered crumbling Latin texts, including some of Cicero’s works
“Dark Ages”

15. Read Petrarch’s Letter to Posterity
The Rebirth
of Classical Studies
Petrarch
“Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect… they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.”
Read Petrarch’s Letter to Posterity

16. as summarized by some unknown medieval monk:
The Robbery The Periochae of Livy
The Fall of Carthage
as summarized by some unknown medieval monk:
When Hasdrubal surrendered to Scipio during the final stage of the siege, his wife, who had -only a few days before- been unable to convince her husband to escape to the victor, threw herself from the citadel into the flames of the burning city with her two children.

17. Greek Literature Fall of Constantinople (1453)
Turks close Christian universities
Greek scholars flee to Italy
with Ancient texts
Plato’s complete works translated into Latin for the first time.

18. NOPE!

19. Textual Criticism Lorenzo Valla
Discourse on the Forgery of the Alleged Donation of Constantine [Text]

20. Note Classical Lettering
The Rebirth
of Human Dignity
Pico
Note Classical Lettering
Pico della Mirandola ( )
Oration on the Dignity of Man
The “Manifesto of the Renaissance”
900 Theses
Syncretism

21. The Great Chain of Being
The Medieval Worldview

22. Even the angels envy us…

23. Secularism
Although Petrarch and other Renaissance humanists were devout Christians, they studied the classics for his own enjoyment and edification… an end in themselves.
NOTE: Secularism does not necessarily imply an anti-religious or irreligious mindset.
Petrarch

24. Africa
Poet Laureate
Petrarch’s epic poem, written in Latin, about the exploits of Scipio Africanus during the Second Punic War

25. Canzoniere Poet Laureate Collection of Petrarch’s vernacular poetry
Mostly Sonnets
Mostly to “Laura”
Links:
English/Italian
Full English Text
Full Italian Text

26. The Love of Petrarch’s Life
Laura
The Love of Petrarch’s Life ?
Laura, illustrated by her virtues and well-celebrated in my verse, appeared to me for the first time during my youth in 1327, on April 6, in the Church of Saint Claire in Avignon, in the first hour of the day; and in the same city, in the same month, on the same sixth day at the same first hour in the year of 1348, withdrew from life, while I was at Verona, unconscious of my loss.... Her chaste and lovely body was interred on the evening of the same day… her soul, as I believe, returned to heaven, whence it came.
-- Written in a Manuscript of Virgil

27. CIVIC VIRTUE
The Art of
Leadership

28. The Roman Empire

29. Machiavelli The Prince “Machiavellian” Advice to rulers
The end justifies the means

30. Baldassare Castiglione
The Book of the Courtier
A guide on how to be a respectable (and respected) gentleman (or lady)
Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione by Raphael

31. Commerce Usury Medici Family Lending money with interest
Prohibited by RCC during Middle Ages
LIMITED INVESTMENT
Medici Family
Prominent in Florence, Italy
Medici Bank
Patrons of the Arts
Lorenzo de Medici

32. Invention Printing Press
1454 – Gutenberg experiments with movable type
Gutenberg Bible (1456)
About 180 copies produced
Information can spread more quickly than ever before… and at a fraction of the cost!