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What are effects of Renaissance?

Answer» Effects of Renaissance(a) BEGINNING OF MODERN AGEi) Humanism: Humanism was one of the movements that started in Italy in fourteenth century.\xa0Italian universities were centres of legal studies.\xa0Francesco Petrarch\xa0is known as ‘Father of Humanism’. He\xa0suggested a shift from the study of law to the ancient Roman culture and texts. The term ‘humanism’ was first used by\xa0Roman lawyer and essayist\xa0Cicero. Humanists thought that they were restoring ‘true civilisation’ after centuries of darkness, for they believed that a\xa0‘Dark Age’\xa0had set in after the collapse of the Roman Empire. The period from the fifth to fourteenth centuries was the\xa0Middle Ages, and the\xa0Modern Age\xa0started from fifteenth century.\tHumanistic art: In the fifteenth century, Florence was recognised for its wo prominent Renaissance men.\xa0Dante Alighieri\xa0(1265-1321), an eminent poet and philosopher of Italy who wrote on religious themes (he is known for his classic ‘The DIvine Comedy‘), and\xa0Giotto\xa0(1267-1337), an artist who painted lifelike portraits, very different from the stiff figures done by earlier artists. From then it developed as the most exciting intellectual city in Italy and as a centre of artistic creativity.\tHumanistic literature, Humanities stream:\xa0By the early fifteenth century, the term ‘humanist’ was used for masters who taught grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history and moral philosophy.\xa0The Latin word\xa0humanitas, from which ‘humanities’ was derived, had been used many centuries ago\xa0to mean culture. These subjects were not drawn from or connected with religion, and emphasised skills developed by individuals through discussion and debate.\xa0Giovanni Boccaccio\xa0was the greatest writer and humanist who wrote\xa0Decameron.\xa0The universities of Padua and Bologna had been centers of legal studies.\tHumanists reached out to people in a variety of ways. Though the curricula in universities continued to be dominated by law, medicine and theology, humanist subjects slowly began to be introduced in schools, not just in Italy but in other European countries as well.


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