... the content. More and more artists were learning humanism. Humanism is a study of human beings, and human beings are treated as innocent by birth. The very first great humanist was Francesco Petrarca, he was referred to as Petrarch. He was born in Arezzo, and he also lived in Avignon, Bologna, and Montpelier (Textbook). He was a traveler himself. He believed in classical ... ...

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... public and pride to support artists . The following paragraphs will take a look at humanism from the beginning in Italy and then patronage during the Italian Renaissance. The father of humanism, Francesco Petrarch, helped spread humanism. Petrarch admired the writing of the Roman philosopher Cicero . He had a love for language. He studied forgotten classical manuscripts and reintroduced the ideas of ancient writers ... ...

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... Ages, and was spawned by the birth of the philosophy of humanism, which emphasized the importance of individual achievement 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 ... ...

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... which prepared people to lead others and participate in public life for the public good. Some of the seeds of this transformation in education were found in the work of Francesco Guicciardini, an Italian statesman and historian, who understood the importance of pleasing rulers and men of honor. In his work Reflections, he wrote that acquiring more superficial or "decorative" skills ... ...

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