Resourses
A Renaissance cultural movement that turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
Humanism
Vernacular
http://www.humanistsofutah.org/what.html
http://petrarch.petersadlon.com/petrarch.html
http://www.canterburytales.org/canterbury_tales.html
The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
Italian Renaissance Humanism
Important People
Kourtney Lescher
Petrarch: Known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest humanists. He became famous
over his poems addressed to an unknown person named Laura.
Chaucer: Chaucer wrote his collection of stories, Chaucer is credited with having set the style for Middle English literature. Earlier Anglo-Saxon poetry, such as 'Beowulf', had been succeeded by a taste for French literature.
Important people
Christine de Pisan was born in Venice ,1364. She was a french writer. She was the daughter of an astrologer to Charles V and the wife of a court secretary and took up writing to support her children when she was widowed, including ballads, and complaints, many in the courtly-love tradition. Some works, both poetry and prose, champion women, notably The Book of the City of Ladies (1405). She also wrote a life of Charles V and Le Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc (1429), inspired by Joan of Arc's early victories.