Humanism

Key Terms Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446)

Duomo (after 1415) Textual criticism Civic Humanism Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)

The Prince (1513)

What is Humanism?

Why is this evidence of humanism?

Andreas Vesalius, De humanis corporis fabrica, 1543

Brunelleschi, Dome of Florence Cathedral, ca 1420

Return to the Ancients– a Renaissance?

Early Biblical Criticism

The Scholar-Citizen

Humanist Governance?

What are the causes of the humanist turn?

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