... "civic humanism " was also developed. During the political turmoil within the city, the study of classical texts and the values learned from them were to be fused with the republican beliefs of the time (Humanism 1). The concepts of humanism were to be used to support the state. From Florence, humanism spread throughout Italy to Venice, Milan, and later Rome ... not the only genre affected by humanism. Neoplatonism was birthed from it as well. Neoplatonism during the Renaissance was a revival of Platonism, a dualistic philosophy based on Plato's Republic. In this book, Plato categorized ...

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... in a wide range of fields. The early humanists, such as writer Francesco Petrarch, studied the works of the ancient Greeks and Romans for inspiration and ideology, mixing the philosophies of Plato and other ancient thinkers with the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. Under the influence of the humanists, literature and the arts climbed to new levels of importance. 2. Niccolo Machiavelli ... -republican idealist, or right wing fascist? In actuality, both, as well as neither. Machiavelli lived during the period of the French Invasions, a situation which obviously influenced his deep-r...

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