LECTURE:
THE RENAISSANCE
Jacob
Burckhardt: "The
Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy" (1860)
Part
II: The
Development of the Individual
Italy Revives
Classicism and humanism
- Petrarch (~1350) letters c. 1372 (see last paragraph)
- Civic humanism cities map
- individualism
and secularism
Document: Masaccio's Trinity
Masaccio's Trinity
Renaissance culture
- "realpolitik"
- Document: Machiavelli: The Prince
- Outline of the book
- "Renaissance man": Castiglioni (on women)
- Philosophy:
Document: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man and Pico della Mirandola and his work
Document: Christine de Pisan: Book of the City of Ladies (1405) - religious response:
Savonarola
Document: Fra Bartolomeo: Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola - Architecture and
art
influence of humanism
Document: Brunelleschi: Plan for Church of Santo Spirito
Document: Donatello's and Michaelangelo's David
Sexuality 
- "Age of Bastards"
- prostitution
Veronica Franco and Dangerous Beauty (1998 movie) - syphilis and the invasion of Naples
- homosexuality
bibliography
The Northern Renaissance
- Christian Humanism
Document: Erasmus: In Praise of Folly (1509)
Document: Sir Thomas More: Utopia (1516)
- Northern Art:
Albrecht Dürer
Web document: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1498)
(conquest, war, famine, death)
