... he lost his power. Machiavelli's works are world renowned and still read and practiced by many. The next author to give me an insight on Italy was Dante". The book I read by Dante" was called the Inferno. The Inferno is more than just a fictional story about someone traveling through the universe. It is actually more like an autobiographical journey of life through its author ... punishments or rewards based on the life each person led. Dante then tied this all together and made himself a character that walks the entire length of the conceptualized universe. Due to the fact that Dante p...

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... of the sciences, scientific query began to vanish. Medieval art and literature, focused on the livelihood saints and the prodigious rather than those of mundane people, as frankly described in Dante"s, The Inferno. The arrival of the Renaissance was an acknowledgment of free individualism and the scientific investigation of nature. In Christopher Marlowe's, Doctor Faustus, Faustus represents the energy of the Renaissance ... . With his representation is the protest against the medieval times, its religious-centered universe and its grasp of all capabilities of humans, which, in contrast,...

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... Italy brought Botticelli popularity in Florence and abroad. Furthermore he was also very knowledgeable in many other areas; cultured as he was, he wrote a commentary on a portion of Dante and illustrated the Inferno, which he printed, spending much time over it. This diversion and absence from painting led to serious disorders in his living. He printed many other drawings, but in a substandard ... ...

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