![]() ![]() Father of modern historical criticism., - one of the great critics of the period, he is most famous for researching and unearthing the forgery of the Donation of Constantine. Lorenzo Valla (1406-1457) On Pleasure, and On the False Donation of Constantine, which challenged the authority of the papacy. He also believed that there is no limits to what man can accomplish. Man is placed in-between beasts and the angels. Europe's first feminist, and well educated in France Pico della Mirandola Wrote On the Dignity of Man which stated that man was made in the image of God before the fall and as Christ after the Resurrection. Christine de Pisan "The City of Ladies " Began a new debate over the proper role of women in society. It outlined the qualities of a true gentleman. Described the ideal of a Renaissance man who was well versed in the Greek and Roman classics, and accomplished warrior, could play music, dance, and had a modest but confident personal demeanor. Quintilian the famed author of "The Education of an Orator," and the tutor of Pliny the Younger Baldassare Castiglione The Book of The Courtier. He's famous for his Decameron and for being an avid collector of manuscripts, assembling an encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology. Aristotle one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers Scholasticism orthodoxy of a scholastic variety Liberal Arts studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) Dante Alighieri an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321) Giovanni Boccaccio Petrach's student and friend who pioneered in Humanism. He believed the first two centuries of the Roman Empire to represent the peak in the development of human civilization. Humanism the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason Petrarch (1304-1374) Father of the Renaissance. ![]()
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