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H332 Art, Assassination, and the Individual: The Renaissance

3 credit(s)
The Renaissance refers to the greatest outpouring of art in the history of Western civilization.  It also refers to extreme political violence in Italy where war and assassination were regular parts of politics.  The Renaissance was distinguished by a spate of memorable individuals such as Petrarch, Lorenzo de’ Medici, and Pope Julius II.  The Renaissance was a time of great religiosity personified by saints such as Catherine of Siena, but also a corruption that pervaded the institutional Church at its highest levels.  All of this happened within the remarkable revival of classical culture and humanism and new theories of education and learning.  Emphasis will be placed on the reading of important Renaissance texts by authors such as Niccolo Machiavelli, and Thomas More.


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