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The literature of the Renaissance was written within the general movement of the Renaissance, which arose in 14th-century Italy and continued until the mid-17th century in England while being diffused into the rest of the western world. [1] It is characterized by the adoption of a humanist philosophy and the recovery of the classical Antiquity.
Jean Bullant. Agnolo Bronzino. Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Pieter Brueghel the Younger. Jan Brueghel the Younger. Filippo Brunelleschi. Marco Cardisco. Juan de Castillo. Androuet du Cerceau.
Leonardo Bruni. Leonardo Bruni[a] or Leonardo Aretino (c. 1370 – March 9, 1444) was an Italian humanist, historian and statesman, often recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. [1] He has been called the first modern historian. [2] He was the earliest person to write using the three-period view of history ...
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 [1] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that ...
The 16th century in France was a remarkable period of literary creation (the language of this period is called Middle French).The use of the printing press (aiding the diffusion of works by ancient Latin and Greek authors; the printing press was introduced in 1470 in Paris, and in 1473 in Lyon), the development of Renaissance humanism and Neoplatonism, and the discovery (through the wars in ...
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that profoundly affected European intellectual life in the early modern period. Beginning in Italy, and spreading to the rest of Europe by the 16th century, its influence was felt in art, architecture, philosophy, literature, music, science, technology, politics, religion, and other aspects of ...
In contrast to volume upon volume that reproduce yet again detailed photographs of the Sistine Ceiling or Leonardo's drawings, the literature on Raphael, particularly in English, is limited to only a few books". [103] They conclude, nonetheless, that "of all the great Renaissance masters, Raphael's influence is the most continuous." [105]
Giovanni Boccaccio (UK: / bəˈkætʃioʊ / bə-KATCH-ee-oh, US: / boʊˈkɑːtʃ (i) oʊ, bəˈ -/ boh-KAH-ch (ee)oh, bə-; Italian: [dʒoˈvanni bokˈkattʃo]; 16 June 1313 [1] – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well ...