HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Question
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Which of the following correctly matches the author with something he or she wrote?
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Thomas More and Utopia
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Christine de Pizan and Hamlet
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William Shakespeare and The Praise of Folly
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Desiderius Erasmus and Gargantua and Pantagruel
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Who were Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More? Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More were Christian humanists.
Detailed explanation-2: -Both Erasmus and Rabelias were humanists. They believed in the uplifting power of knowledge and its impact on human potential. Both men also committed much of their life to the church and spent time at a monastery. In addition, both men were widely-respected authors and scholars during their lives.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the early 1400s, the Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446) reintroduced a means of rendering the recession of space, called linear perspective. In Brunelleschi’s technique, lines appear to converge at a single fixed point in the distance.
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