HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Humanism
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realism
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classicism
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protestantism
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Detailed explanation-1: -Petrarch was a scholar who laid the foundations for Renaissance humanism, which emphasized the study of Classical authors from antiquity over the Scholastic thinkers of the Middle Ages. He defended this idea to his more conservative contemporaries.
Detailed explanation-2: -Petrarch’s focus on the Classical knowledge of ancient Greece and Rome revived interest in many ancient authors and ideas, and his poetry set new standards of form and style.
Detailed explanation-3: -Petrarch is most famous for his Canzoniere, a collection of vernacular poems about a woman named Laura, whom the speaker loves throughout his life but cannot be with.
Detailed explanation-4: -Petrarch, Dante, and Erasmus were all major figures in Renaissance humanism; all were Catholic humanists.