... the city plan of Rome. The trident beginning at Palazzo Popolo, the most northern entry to Rome, is the place at which this can be most appreciated. A perspectival axis is used here to emphasis the pomp and importance of the route to the Campidolio. This type of new architectural space was also seen in renaissance gardens where axial perspective was used to highlight the ordered nature of the formal areas of the garden in comparison to the wilderness. The ... gardens of ... ...

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... her golden aura representing her connection with fertility. The name Aphrodite literally means foam born, and according to the poet Hesiod she was born from the sea foam that surrounded the immortal flesh which was the result of the castration of Kronos (Theogony 190). That explains why the Renaissance artist Botticelli depicted her on a giant scallop shell. The Theogony is just one explanation of her creation where she was born from Kronos ... birth from Zeus and Dione, connecting her as the "goddess of sex and procreator of children, whose concerns are of the body and not of the mind,...

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... itself may not have existed, save for the links forced by the modern historian with his retrospective knowledge. If one did not know that Rome collapsed, would we be able to make predictive claims based solely on any of the aforementioned circumstances? Hindsight is 20/20; concepts like "the Fall of Rome" or "The Renaissance" were never perceived to exist at the beginning of the period/process -- they were only recognized and ... articulated (and capitalized) after the fact. As the historian A.F. Pollard asked, "Can we really be fair to men of the past, knowing what they could not know?...

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... of time, the flower of unity, believed to be lost, burst into the open. The kingdom of a united Italy was born and a century later, a republic took its place. The name given to the process was the Risorgimento. Literally, "risorgimento" means resurrection, a time for renewal, a rebirth. The word is used as a synonym for Italian Renaissance, and for the revolutionary movement in Italy at the time of Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi. It also became the name of the ... was an Italian patriot and military leader who helped free the Italians from foreign rule and unify the country. He...

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