Renaissance

.Renaissance writers change literature

-Renaissance writing techniques that writers use today. They follow examples from medieval writer Dante. He wrote vernacular

Petrarch and Boccaccio --Francesco Petrarch earliest most influential humanist. Wrote in both italian and in Latin. He wrote famous poems

Italian writer Boccaccio is best known for the Decameron.

Machiavelli Advises Rulers -the prince by Niccolo Mchiavelli, he also examines the imperfect conduct of human beings, he does this with a guide book -in the prince, machiavelli examines how ruleers gain power and keep it even with enimies. ---machiavelli said a prince must be stong as a lion and shrewd as a fox.

Women Writers ---Women who became famous by writting wrote about personal subjects not politics Vittoria Colonna exchanged sonnets with michelangelo and helped castiglione publich The Courtier. ---Toward the end of 15th century Renaissance ideas began to spread north from Italy to countries such as Franc and Germany and England.Northern artists and thinkers would adapt the Renaissance ideals in their own ways

Essential Facts

 * 1) Michelangelo’s famous painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel took four years to complete and consists of over 300 figures. Contrary to popular belief, Michelangelo completed most of the painting in a standing position painfully looking up at the ceiling, not lying down on a scaffold.
 * 2) Considered the quintessential “Renaissance Man,” Leonardo Da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, mathematician, engineer, and anatomist.
 * 3) One of the foremost families of the Renaissance, the Medicis produced three popes and several rulers of Florence. The family was also a strong patron of the arts and sciences: Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael, and Galileo all benefited from Medici patronage.
 * 4) During the Renaissance, Italy consisted of 250 separate states, most of which were ruled by a city. The smallest of these city-states had a population of less than 5,000 people; the largest, such as Venice and Milan, had 100,000 people. Italy did not become a unified nation until the nineteenth century.
 * 5) In many ways, the innovations of the Renaissance were Europeans’ way of recovering from the calamities of the fourteenth century, which included famines, The Hundred Years War, and the Black Plague. Historians estimate that one-third to two-thirds of Europe’s population died during this period.