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European History [1]
Chapter 12.4 Intellectual Renaissance Humanism Italian Renaissance Humanism education form and culture based on the study of classics; program revolved around a group of intellectual disciplines; most humanists were laymen Humanism emerged through Petrarch ?Father of Humanism?; took up a literary career; first to characterize MA as barbarians Humanism in 15th century Italy Cicero was a model of civic humanism; reflected values of Italian Renaissance Lorenzo Valla tried to restore Latin Poggio Bracciolini reflected humanism Study of classics compatible with Christianity Marsilio Ficino (a Florentine Platonic Academy leader): dedicated his life to Neoplatonism(lowest form of physical matter to purest spirit (God) with humans somehawere in between and the universe is bound by love)