Renaissance humanism

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cultural movement intellectual movement philosophical current

Renaissance humanism was an intellectual movement of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance that emphasized the study of classical antiquity, human potential, and secular learning, laying foundations for modern Western thought.

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Label	Occurrences
Renaissance humanism canonical	118
Italian Renaissance humanism	10
Northern Renaissance humanism	6
Renaissance humanists	6
Ciceronianism	1
Early Renaissance humanism	1
English Renaissance humanism	1
European Renaissance literature	1
Florentine humanism	1
Humanism	1
Petrarchan humanism	1
Portuguese humanism	1
Renaissance schools	1

Statements (55)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural movement ⓘ intellectual movement ⓘ philosophical current ⓘ
associatedWithFigure	Coluccio Salutati ⓘ Desiderius Erasmus ⓘ Francesco Petrarca ⓘ Giovanni Boccaccio ⓘ Leonardo Bruni ⓘ Lorenzo Valla ⓘ Marsilio Ficino ⓘ Niccolò Machiavelli ⓘ Pico della Mirandola ⓘ
contrastedWith	medieval scholasticism ⓘ
coreFocus	human potential ⓘ secular learning ⓘ studia humanitatis ⓘ study of classical antiquity ⓘ
emergedInCentury	14th century ⓘ
emergedInPeriod	late Middle Ages ⓘ
emphasizedDiscipline	grammar ⓘ history ⓘ moral philosophy ⓘ poetry ⓘ rhetoric ⓘ
flourishedInCentury	15th century ⓘ 16th century ⓘ
hadViewOnReligion	sought harmony between classical learning and Christianity ⓘ
historicalPeriod	Renaissance ⓘ
influenced	Reformation thought ⓘ Renaissance ⓘ surface form: Renaissance art Renaissance education ⓘ modern Western philosophy ⓘ political thought in early modern Europe ⓘ scientific revolution ⓘ
influencedRegion	Western Europe ⓘ
legacy	development of secular scholarship ⓘ foundations for modern Western thought ⓘ modern concept of the humanities ⓘ
method	philological analysis of classical texts ⓘ recovery and editing of ancient manuscripts ⓘ
originatedIn	Italian city-states ⓘ Italy ⓘ
promoted	education of lay elites ⓘ revival of ancient moral philosophy ⓘ use of classical models in literature ⓘ
relatedTo	Christian humanism ⓘ civic humanism ⓘ
valuedConcept	civic virtue ⓘ critical reading of texts ⓘ dignity of man ⓘ education ⓘ eloquence ⓘ individualism ⓘ
valuedLanguage	Greek ⓘ Latin ⓘ

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Francesco Petrarca → influenced → Renaissance humanism ⓘ

this entity surface form: European Renaissance literature

Giovanni Boccaccio → movement → Renaissance humanism ⓘ

Coluccio Salutati → movement → Renaissance humanism ⓘ

Coluccio Salutati → influenced → Renaissance humanism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Italian Renaissance humanism

Leonardo Bruni → movement → Renaissance humanism ⓘ

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Lorenzo Valla → movement → Renaissance humanism ⓘ

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Marsilio Ficino → movement → Renaissance humanism ⓘ

Niccolò Machiavelli → movement → Renaissance humanism ⓘ

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Michel de Montaigne → movement → Renaissance humanism ⓘ

Seneca the Younger → influenced → Renaissance humanism ⓘ

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Plutarch → influenced → Renaissance humanism ⓘ

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this entity surface form: Northern Renaissance humanism

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this entity surface form: Italian Renaissance humanism

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this entity surface form: Italian Renaissance humanism

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In Praise of Folly → movement → Renaissance humanism ⓘ

Institutio principis Christiani → movement → Renaissance humanism ⓘ

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The Birth of Venus → culturalContext → Renaissance humanism ⓘ

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Epistolae seniles → literaryMovement → Renaissance humanism ⓘ