Discuss the meaning of the term renaissance (including what it does not mean), and explain the characteristic features of the early Italian Renaissance
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Students should define the term renaissance. Crucial is both the awareness that the “rebirth” did not follow a period totally devoid of culture and the realization that the Renaissance was a cultural and intellectual movement and not an economic or political phenomenon. Examples of new styles in vernacular literature, the “civic virtue” of the Italian urban scholars, and other features of early Renaissance culture should be given. A particularly good essay will contrast the Renaissance belief that a radical break with medieval culture had occurred with the current historical interpretation stressing greater continuity.
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