1. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1342-1400) Canterbury Tales Bureaucrat, diplomat, court poet Spent some time in Italy Translated the Romance of the Rose into (Middle) English

2. 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. 1363-c. 1429)

3. “Three Crowns of Florence”: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Francesco Petrarch (1304-74) Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75)

4. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) The Divine Comedy InfernoVirgil PurgatorioBeatrice ParadisoSt Bernard of Clairvaux 1290s Involved in politics 1302 Exiled from Florence

5. Francesco Petrarch (1304-74) 1341 Poet Laureate of Rome Defender of poetry Advocate of study of Roman culture, incl. original Classical Latin

6. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75) From Certaldo or Florence Writer and diplomat Advocates study of Classical Greek Decameron (completed 1358)Fabliaux

7. Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) Head of Platonic Academy in Florence Soul seeking to free itself from dictates of destiny Seeking abstract qualities closest to divinity

8. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-94) Quest for truth Free will as means to great good or evil Possibility of rising to angelic near-divinity

9. Pseudo-Hermes Trismegistus Corpus Hermeticum (1st-3rd c. AD) Kabbalah

10. Giotto di Bondone (c. 1277-1337) Masaccio (1401-c. 1428)