1. The Influence of Humanism in Renaissance Art
Written text itself was epitomized in classical Latin literature and he believed that the prose of Cicero was the ultimate model. He imitated the Latin prose of letter writing in his personal letters, enthralled to discover Cicero's Letters to Atticus in 1345 (Humanism: Italy" 1). ... With this newly discovered appreciation for Latin literature and the humanities, the foundations for humanistic thinking were laid. ... Such was exhibited in Lorenzo Valla's De elegantiae linguae latinae (Elegances of the Latin Language), which was completed in 1441 and supplemented the belief that Lati...
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