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Renaissance- Renaissance ("rebirth") starts in Italy in the 1400s. - revival of urban culture, revival of ancient literature, philosophy, science. - new passion for what was human: Humanism - Classical past as a Golden Age. Thomas Aquinas- 13th century Dominican theologian - combined Christian theology with the rational principles of classical philosophy Dante- 1265-1321 - born in Florence, but last 20 years spent as exile - Divine Comedy has 3 sections:
- poetic models from the ancient world - e.g. Inferno (Hell) modelled on Aeneas' visit to Underworld in Aeneid 6 - but Inferno differs from Vergil both in position and purpose Modern LegacyPolitics - American Founders used imagery, structure of the Roman republic (senate, congress) Linguistics - Latin --> Romance languages (French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish). Literary - e.g. Ovid's Metamorphoses --> Chaucer, Shakespeare, etc.
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