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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.

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