INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
BEGINNING OF RENAISSANCE
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Question
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translated them.
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burned them.
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jailed the authors who wrote them.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Humanists believed in the importance of an education in classical literature and the promotion of civic virtue, that is, realising a person’s full potential both for their own good and for the good of the society in which they live.
Detailed explanation-2: -These men are Petrarch, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) and Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), and they are widely considered to be the fathers of renaissance humanism. Renaissance humanists were interested in learning what it means to be a human being, and how to live a virtuous life, and participate in society.
Detailed explanation-3: -The great intellectual movement of Renaissance Italy was humanism. The humanists believed that the Greek and Latin classics contained both all the lessons one needed to lead a moral and effective life and the best models for a powerful Latin style.
Detailed explanation-4: -The pioneering historian of humanism was Georg Voigt (b. 1827–d. 1891), who in 1859 published a large monograph on Italian Renaissance humanism that described the origins of humanism and defined the terms of research for nearly a century.