The Renaissance was a more forward-thinking age inspired by a re-interest in the art and culture of ancient Greece and Rome. This essay will cover the period in time right before the Italian Renaissance kicked off called Proto-Renaissance‚ and the factors contributing to its success. The three factors that contributed to the success of this transition were‚ where it began‚ the influence of humanism‚ and artistic innovations contributed by artists. These factors are considered to be essential in the
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“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.” (Brown‚ 1989) The Italian American dialect prevalent in popular culture like movies and television shows is born of the shifts that occurred in the Italian language from the early days of immigration from Italy to the Americas. Settling by and large in the upper eastern section of the the United States‚ enclaves formed in most large cities‚ often referred to as Little Italy. The immigrants learned
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Scientists such as Galileo‚ Copernicus‚ and Vesalius were all born during Renaissance in Italy‚ and their ideas are still relevant in our lives today. William Shakespeare is one of the most well known writers in history‚ and he was born during the Italian Renaissance. Life during Renaissance Italy is similar and different to our life today. Renaissance food was very different from food today. There were no fast food restaurants and most of the food people ate were all organic and healthy. They ate
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In this video‚ I learned a lot about Italian American culture. For example‚ I used to just go with the notion that all Italian American’s are somehow connected to the mafia‚ and after viewing this film I have realized that this idea is pretty ignorant. I like how the sopranos were sued because of the picture they were painting of Italian Americans. I also liked how many Italian Americans left Italy during Musolini’s reign in order to be free from these type of politics. Italy than declared war on
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Mini project a) All my great-grandparents were Italian immigrants who stablished themselves in Colombo‚ South of Brazil‚ around the end of the 1800s. They were speakers of Veneto‚ a variety of Italian spoken in the North of Italy until nowadays‚ and so was the second generation. The third generation‚ my parents‚ are capable of understanding it‚ but not always of speaking it. My father would communicate with his parents exclusively in Veneto‚ but in Portuguese in any other social context. My mother
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Evaluate the relative importance of Mazzini‚ Cavour‚ and Garibaldi for the Italian Unification between 1848 and 1871 In order to achieve the unification the Italians had to go through a long struggle starting from 1830 and ending in 1871. Thanks to the leading of Mazzini‚ Cavour and Garibaldi‚ the Mediterranean peninsula was able to defeat its foreign enemies‚ especially the Austrian Empire‚ and create a united nation under the King of Piedmont‚ Viktor Emmanuel II. Although Mazzini was the starter
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The Italian Renaissance is typically viewed as a momentous period for growth in knowledge and advancements in society. The equality between men and women is one of the first things some historians‚ such as Bruckhardt and Kelly-Gadol use to display society from that time period. There were certain expectancies out of the people as described by Bruni in his letter to Battista Malatesta (c. 1405)‚ and Vergerio in his letter to Ubertino (1392). Castiglione had a text called The Courtier‚ which gave
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A pigment is a natural coloring matter that usually comes from a plant or animal. Today‚ there are synthetic pigments with the advancement of technology‚ but during the Italian Renaissance they did not have these luxuries. They had to obtain their pigment naturally. There were different classifications of pigment‚ each producing a different desired color. The material that contained the desired pigment had to be grinded very finely‚ and then the pigment would need to be added to a base to create
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Italian High Renaissance artists achieved ideal of harmony and balance comparable with the works of ancient Greece or Rome. Renaissance Classicism was a form of art that removed the extraneous detail and showed the world as it was. Forms‚ colors and proportions‚ light and shade effects‚ spatial harmony‚ composition‚ perspective‚ anatomy - all are handled with total control and a level of accomplishment for which there are no real precedents. Leonardo da Vinci was a Florentine artist‚ one of the
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Looking Assignment One The Renaissance period in art manifested itself differently in the various Italian city-states as the artists in those cities expressed the ideals in their own way. As the style shifted into the High Renaissance‚ the concepts of ordered space and mathematical precision came to the forefront of artistic thought‚ especially among the Italian artists. This focus on an intellectual approach to art came as the result of a perceived lack of such intellectualism during the medieval
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