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    Contact between Geoffrey Chaucer and the Italian humanists Petrarch or Boccaccio has been proposed by scholars for centuries. More recent scholarship...
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  • rhyming stanza form that was introduced to English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer. The form enjoyed significant success in the fifteenth century and into...
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    Giovanni Boccaccio (category Pages with Italian IPA)
    bibliography for an exhaustive listing. Italy portal Literature portal Influence of Italian humanism on Chaucer Bartlett 1992, pp. 43–44. Blanc 1844, p...
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    Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/ CHAW-sər; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales....
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    The Italian Renaissance (Italian: Rinascimento [rinaʃʃiˈmento]) was a period in Italian history between the 14th and 16th centuries. The period is known...
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    Palazzo Molina, Venice (category Italy articles missing geocoordinate data)
    Palace of Two Towers (Palazzo de Due Torri) or Palazzo Navager is a Gothic style palace located on the Riva degli Schiavoni #4145 in the sestiere of Castello...
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    Petrarca-Preis was a European literary and translation award named after the Italian Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch. Founded in 1975 by German...
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    Continuity thesis (category Historiography of science)
    the New Humanism (1931), George Sarton put much stress on the historical continuity of science. Sarton further noted that the development of science stagnated...
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    Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian: [ˈpjɛr ˈpaːolo pazoˈliːni]; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, film director, writer, actor and playwright...
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    Primavera (Italian pronunciation: [primaˈvɛːra], meaning "Spring") is a large panel painting in tempera paint by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro...
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    two Doctors of the Church in their studies, with a number of objects which mark them as scholars and precursors of Renaissance Humanism. There is known...
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    These two circumstances played a role in Italian humanism's influence on him. The marriages of five daughters of Bernabò to German and Austrian princes...
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    saints and other religious figures. In Italy this development was tied to the ideals of humanism. Italian influences on Netherlandish art are first apparent...
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    Poetry (redirect from List of poetic forms)
    (2001). "'I kan nat geeste': Chaucer's Artful Alliteration". In Gaylord, Alan T. (ed.). Essays on the art of Chaucer's Verse. Routledge. pp. 195–228...
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    founder of an entire art, the art of the novel". In the satirical musical The Music Man by Meredith Willson, the names "Chaucer! Rabelais! Balzac!" are presented...
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    rejection of humanism and liberal democracy, as well as very intense nationalism, with a government headed by a single all-powerful dictator. The Italian politician...
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  • framing device of ten individuals each telling ten stories introduced the term novella and inspired later works, including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales...
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  • "Divus Claudius". thelatinlibrary.com. Larry D. Benson, ed. The Riverside Chaucer. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. p. 939, n. 3164. Martínez, Javier...
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    Pietru Caxaro (category No local image but image on Wikidata)
    Marrasio. As in the case of Catalonia, the spirit of humanism was imported to Sicily from Northern Italy where large numbers of Palemitans went to study...
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    Late Middle Ages (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    Péter (2011). Italy & Hungary: Humanism and Art in the Early Renaissance. Villa I Tatti. ISBN 978-0-674-06346-4. Archived from the original on 2024-06-10...
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    Italophilia (category Culture of Italy)
    on the definition, and the fourth-largest Italian commercial and retail bank. The Italian Renaissance was to a large extent an expression of humanism...
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  • Geoffrey Chaucer – Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales Leonardo da Vinci – Notebooks Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince; Discourses on the First...
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    "The Jewish Mother-in-law; Synagoga and the Man of Law's Tale", pp. 8-11, in Delany, Sheila (ed), Chaucer and the Jews : Sources, Contexts, Meanings, 2002...
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    Alchemy (redirect from History of Alchemy)
    In the 14th century, Chaucer began a trend of alchemical satire that can still be seen in recent fantasy works like those of the late Sir Terry Pratchett...
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    humanism, theatre and business. According to 100 Years of Nobel Prizes a review of Nobel prizes award between 1901 and 2000 reveals that (65.4%) of Nobel...
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    was composed. This work then influenced Chaucer. Ovid's poetry provided inspiration for the Renaissance idea of humanism, and more specifically, for many...
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    Renaissance humanism and its emphasis on empiricism at the expense of religious faith; and the growth of the middle class amidst the rise of mercantilism...
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    and the Nightingale (13th century) and Geoffrey Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls. Renaissance humanism defined itself broadly as disfavoring medieval scholastic...
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    Thomas More (category Speakers of the House of Commons of England)
    Learning" (scholarship which was later known as "humanism" or "London humanism"), and thought highly of the young More. Believing that More had great potential...
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    Averroes (redirect from Averroes of Cordoba)
    thinkers, in the first circle of hell around Saladin. The prologue of The Canterbury Tales (1387) by Geoffrey Chaucer lists Averroes among other medical...
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