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The 167 pages that link to Renaissance humanism, each with the reason it gives.

• Scientific RevolutionRelated: Humanist textual criticism encouraged scrutiny of authorities and attention to original sources.

• FlorenceRelated: Florentine scholars and patrons helped give humanism civic purpose and visibility.

• CiceroRelated: Humanists recovered Cicero’s works and treated his Latin as a model of eloquence and learning.

• RenaissanceRelated: Its focus on classical texts and human capacities shaped Renaissance education and writing.

• Leonardo da VinciRelated: Leonardo’s investigations of the human body and mind resonate with its interests.

• MichelangeloRelated: His powerful human figures gave visual form to Renaissance interest in human potential.

• Renaissance artRelated: Humanist interests shaped Renaissance subjects and the status artists claimed for their work.

• Italian RenaissanceRelated: Its study of classical texts gave Renaissance artists and political thinkers a shared intellectual program.

• IndividualismRelated: Its attention to human dignity helped shape later accounts of individual worth.

• Renaissance architectureRelated: Its recovery of ancient thought helped make classical architecture culturally compelling.

• History paintingRelated: Humanist interests renewed demand for paintings about ancient history and exemplary figures.

• Classical antiquityRelated: Humanists made ancient writings central to Renaissance education and cultural renewal.

• Mehmed IIRelated: Mehmed’s court engaged with humanist scholarship and classical models of rulership.

• Latin literatureRelated: Humanists revived classical Latin style and expanded Latin composition.

• Canon formationRelated: Humanist recovery and teaching elevated particular classical works as models.

• Francis I of FranceRelated: Humanist scholarship supplied ideas and expertise for Francis’s cultural and educational patronage.

• PhilologyRelated: Humanists revived manuscript comparison and close reading of Greek and Latin works.

• Andreas VesaliusRelated: Humanist philology encouraged Vesalius to return to ancient medical texts and inspect their claims.

• GiottoRelated: Later writers cast Giotto’s attention to human experience as an early sign of renewed humanism.

• AntiquarianismRelated: Humanists’ recovery of classical literature helped spur attention to ancient material remains.

• Medieval LatinRelated: Its program changed how scholars evaluated and edited medieval Latin writing.

• Classical receptionRelated: Its scholars and institutions helped establish influential ways of studying and using antiquity.

• PetrarchRelated: Petrarch’s recovery of classical texts and vision of humane learning helped establish this movement.

• Florentine RenaissanceRelated: Florentine scholarship helped spread humanist education and classical study.

• French RenaissanceRelated: Humanist scholarship reshaped French education, writing, and court culture.

• Classical educationRelated: Humanists reshaped classical education through close study of Greek and Latin texts.

• Sistine Chapel ceilingRelated: The cycle’s monumental bodies reflect a Renaissance interest in human form and agency.

• High RenaissanceRelated: Humanist ideals shaped the period’s subjects and its treatment of human dignity.

• MasaccioRelated: Masaccio’s monumental, emotionally present figures accord with humanist attention to embodied life.

• OdeRelated: Renewed engagement with Greek and Roman poetry helped revive classical ode forms.

• HumanitiesRelated: Its scholarship and curricula helped shape the modern idea of humanities.

• Jacopo PeriRelated: Humanist interest in Greek drama inspired attempts to unite music and theatrical speech.

• Sandro BotticelliRelated: Humanist interests helped make classical mythology suitable for elite Florentine commissions.

• Armillary sphereRelated: Renaissance scholars used the armillary sphere as a learned image of classical astronomy.

• Christopher MarloweRelated: Marlowe’s striving protagonists dramatize both the promise and danger of human aspiration.

• Self-portraitRelated: Its changing ideas about individual identity formed part of the context for artists’ self-representation.

• Giovanni BoccaccioRelated: Boccaccio’s scholarship and transmission of classical works contributed to the movement’s foundations.

• Jesuit educationRelated: Renaissance humanist learning supplied much of the tradition’s early curriculum.

• Pierre de RonsardRelated: Classical education supplied Ronsard with models and themes for French verse.

• TerenceRelated: Humanist scholars printed, studied, and staged Terence as a model of classical Latin.

• Georgius AgricolaRelated: Agricola used humanist scholarship to investigate technical subjects neglected by classical authors.

• Lorenzo GhibertiRelated: Classical forms and narrative attention to human action inform Ghiberti’s reliefs.

• Roman literatureRelated: Humanists recovered, edited, and imitated Roman authors as models of style and civic learning.

• The Garden of Earthly DelightsRelated: Its courtly setting invites comparison with contemporary debates about human nature and pleasure.

• Emblem bookRelated: Humanist learning supplied emblem writers with classical sources and rhetorical techniques.

• English RenaissanceRelated: Humanist education helped shape English schools, scholarship, and public writing.

• Greek philosophyRelated: Humanists revived Greek texts and made classical philosophy newly influential in Europe.

• Italian Renaissance paintingRelated: Humanist interests encouraged painters to engage classical subjects and individualized human presence.

• Lucian of SamosataRelated: Humanist scholars helped circulate Lucian’s works through renewed Greek study and translation.

• The DecameronRelated: The Decameron’s attention to human motives and social conduct anticipates humanist interests.