Humanism Research Paper

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Humanism is a cultural and intellectual movement of the Renaissance that emphasized secular concerns as a result of the rediscovery and study of the literature, art, and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome. It was an affirmation of the freedom, poet, uniqueness, and individuality of human beings. Humanism was started between men and women who live in Italy city-states. They had a lot of skills writing play, moral philosophy, and other grammars books. Most of the humanism was related to Christian society. A lot of humanist worked for the churches and some of them were servants and other was a notary. Humanist were not that rich people as the people are rich now days a few of them were rich. But everyone is unique and he/she has own power. …show more content…

Renaissance is very important for the Latin and Greek classes because it helped to rediscover. European Renaissance was discovered by some great humanists and brought the idea of studies. “Classical humanism began in the middle of fourteenth century, when the great Florence poet, Francesco Petrarch began to do systematic scholarship on the ancient writer.” A large number of immigrated moved to Italian cities. They found different types of jobs in there. It was very hard for them to have their own business. A lot of them started to give education in the Italian city-states. Some of them started teaching Greeks as well as classics. A lot of people were interested in the classics. The earlier humanist recovered the study of language of ancient Greece and Hebrew. The classical humanists were engaged in different religions, cultures, and schools of thoughts. Humanist also provides the complete freedom of religion, culture, and …show more content…

There were good sources for French people to get education. There were a lot of books available in the library for people to learn about the Renaissance. French humanist was also very popular for the poetry. A lot of them wrote poetry books. Francis Petrarch was the first humanist, the most historians agreed. He was born in a town near Florence. He received earliest schooling in there and fell in love there classical literature. He became very famous poet. He wrote a lot of poetry in Italy and Greek languages. Francois Rabelais was a French humanist who also known as western realism. He wrote five books about the human rights. These books state that all the French people have their own freedom, power, and religion worship. No one has right to stop other people for anything. The Northern Humanism spread largely in Northern Europe and England because of Italian sources. They adopted Italian traditions and choose their sources from the early humanist. Italian men set apart by a reason and speech, which made them live together in a society. Italian humanists had skill to make Renaissance art since northern humanists adopted their culture and started teaching about the art in city-states. Desideratum Erasmus was a popular humanist in the Northern humanism. He brought the idea of love language. Erasmus was a powerful medium of discovery. He was also stylist and theorist and his

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