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  2. Category:Renaissance writers - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance literature writers (c.14th−16th centuries) — active during the Renaissance period in Europe. See also the preceding Category:Medieval writers and the succeeding Category:Baroque writers

  3. Renaissance literature - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance literature refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies associated with the Renaissance.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]

  4. French Renaissance literature - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Petrarch - Wikipedia

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    Santa Maria della Pieve in Arezzo La Casa del Petrarca (birthplace) at Vicolo dell'Orto, 28 in Arezzo. Francis Petrarch (/ ˈ p ɛ t r ɑːr k, ˈ p iː t-/; 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374; Latin: Franciscus Petrarcha; modern Italian: Francesco Petrarca [franˈtʃesko peˈtrarka]), born Francesco di Petracco, was a scholar from Arezzo and poet of the early Italian Renaissance and one of the ...

  6. Giovanni Boccaccio - Wikipedia

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    Portrait by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450. The details of Boccaccio's birth are uncertain. He was born in Florence or in a village near Certaldo where his family was from. [5] [6] He was the son of Florentine merchant Boccaccino di Chellino and an unknown woman; he was likely born out of wedlock. [7]

  7. François Rabelais - Wikipedia

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    In 1532 he moved to Lyon, one of the intellectual centres of the Renaissance, and began working as a doctor at the hospital Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon. During his time in Lyon, he edited Latin works for the printer Sebastian Gryphius , and wrote a famous admiring letter to Erasmus to accompany the transmission of a Greek manuscript from the printer.

  8. Renaissance humanism - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance humanism is a worldview centered on the nature and importance of humanity that emerged from the study of Classical antiquity.. Renaissance humanists sought to create a citizenry able to speak and write with eloquence and clarity, and thus capable of engaging in the civic life of their communities and persuading others to virtuous and prudent actions.

  9. Works of Erasmus - Wikipedia

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    This text, close to the works of Erasmus, both in content (hostility to the confusion between virtue and suffering) and in form, and of which no manuscript is known, contains at least one flagrant anachronism: an allusion to the persecution of Diocletian, persecution that took place long after the death of Cyprian.