She was also a patron of Renaissance humanism, and a friend of the great scholars Erasmus of Rotterdam and Saint Thomas More.

It was titled Don Rosa e il Rinascimento Disneyano (" Don Rosa and the Disneyean Renaissance ") and written by famous Disney and Rosa scholars, Alberto Becattini, Leonardo Gori and Francesco Stajano.

The Renaissance and fall of the Byzantine Empire ( 1453 ) was accompanied by an influx of Greek scholars and manuscripts to the West, allowing direct comparison between the Arabic commentaries and the original Greek texts of Galen.

The scientific research of the Islamic scientists is often overlooked due to the conflict of the Crusades and " it's possible, too, that many scholars in the Renaissance later played down or even disguised their connection to the Middle East for both political and religious reasons.

Through his book, Alberti opened up his theories and ideals of the Florentine Renaissance to architects, scholars and others.

Classical philology is historically primary, originating in Pergamum and Alexandria around the 4th century B. C., continued by Greeks and Romans throughout the Roman and Byzantine Empires, and eventually taken up by European scholars of the Renaissance, where it was soon joined by philologies of other languages both European ( Germanic, Celtic, Slavistics, etc.

Vol 1: The Renaissance ( 1902 ) older essays by scholars ; emphasis on politics

Cicero, among other Latin writers, translated politeia as res publica and it was in turn translated by Renaissance scholars as republic.

Building upon concepts of medieval feudalism, Renaissance scholars used the ideas of the ancient world to advance their view of an ideal government.

These writings were lost to European societies until Renaissance scholars rediscovered them through Muslim sources and translated them from Arabic into European languages.

Charles of Anjou contributed to the early medieval revival of learning, often referred to as the " Latin " Renaissance, through his employment of several Jewish scholars at the University of Salerno and Naples, who were expert translators.

Coptic Egyptian appeared in the fourth century AD and survived as a living language until the sixteenth century AD, when European scholars traveled to Egypt to learn it from native speakers during the Renaissance.

According to scholars, these encode enigmatic references to learning, religion, mortality, and illusion in the tradition of the Northern Renaissance.

Today with most of Savonarola ’ s treatises and sermons and many of the contemporary sources – chronicles, diaries, government documents and literary works – available in critical editions, scholars can provide fresh, better informed assessments of his character and his place in the Renaissance, the Reformation and modern European history.

The migration of Byzantine scholars and other émigrés from southern Italy and Byzantium during the decline of the Byzantine Empire ( 1203 – 1453 ) and mainly after the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the 16th century, is considered by some scholars as key to the revival of Greek and Roman studies and subsequently in the development of the Renaissance humanism and science.

* Greek scholars in the Renaissance

Josquin is widely considered by music scholars to be the first master of the high Renaissance style of polyphonic vocal music that was emerging during his lifetime.

Some more pieces of the Egyptian fragments were fitted together by Friedrich Blass in Germany and then followed the authoritative edition of Bacchylides ' poetry by Richard Claverhouse Jebb – a combination of scholars that inspired one academic to comment: " we almost had the Renaissance back again ".

His works were received enthusiastically by Renaissance scholars who were curious about pre-Christian history and legends.

During the Renaissance, scholars meticulously enumerated and classified figures of speech.

Alcuin ( pictured center ), was one of the leading scholars of the Carolingian Renaissance.

* Byzantine scholars in Renaissance

John was educated by notable scholars of the time, including the astrologer Tomás de Torres and Diogo de Ortiz, Bishop of Viseu, and Luís Teixeira Lobo, one of the first Portuguese Renaissance humanists, rector of the University of Siena ( 1476 ) and Professor of Law at Ferrara ( 1502 ).

Antiquarianism's wider flowering is more generally associated with the Renaissance, and with the critical assessment and questioning of classical texts undertaken in that period by humanist scholars.

Indeed, it is even surprising in the Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, who fathered this most peculiar view, and in the brilliant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge, who inherited it and is now its most eminent proponent.

" The most learned man anywhere to be found " according to Einhard's Life of Charlemagne, he is considered among the most important architects of the Carolingian Renaissance.

He was one of the most prominent figures of the early Renaissance and a knight of the Order of the Dragon.

Dürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.

The general picture seems to be that during most of the 17th century, a style of hip hop was of late Renaissance dance was widespread, but as time progressed, French ballroom dances such as the minuet were widely adopted at fashionable courts.

It has been described as the single most important and influential work in the West on Medieval and early Renaissance Christianity, and is also the last great Western work that can be called Classical.

The Renaissance Center, located in downtown Detroit, is one of the most recognizable features along the shores of the Detroit River.

The late Medieval period and the Renaissance saw the most prominent use of fresco, particularly in Italy, where most churches and many government buildings still feature fresco decoration.

Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, it has been ranked by Forbes as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and the city is noted for its history, culture, Renaissance art and architecture and monuments.

The most important magician of the Renaissance was Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa ( 1486 – 1535 ), who widely studied various occult topics and earlier grimoires, and eventually published his own, the Three Books of Occult Philosophy, in 1533.

The Miserere is one of the most often-recorded examples of late Renaissance music, although it was actually written during the chronological confines of the Baroque era ; in this regard it is representative of the music of the Roman School of composers, who were stylistically conservative.

Boccaccio and Petrarch were also two of the most educated people in early Renaissance in the field of archaeology.

Around the transition from the 15th to the 16th century, Albrecht Dürer from Nuremberg established his reputation across Europe as painter, printmaker, mathematician, engraver, and theorist when he was still in his twenties and secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.

Due to his literary style and the thoroughness of his research — which seemingly included studying Roman imperial archives and heavily relying on Thucydides — and his apparent rigor — for he tended not to support any character or subject, taking an impartial point of view — he was by far the most read and admired historian during the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the early Modern Era.

This translation from the Latin of Renaissance author Georgius Agricola is still the most important scholarly version and provides its historical context.

Among the most famous composers who wrote for the harpsichord were the members of English virginal school of the late Renaissance, notably William Byrd ( ca.

The lute is used in a great variety of instrumental music from the Medieval to the late Baroque eras and was probably the most important instrument for secular music in the Renaissance.

This is the sort of composition that is most familiarly designated by the term " motet ," and the Renaissance period marked the flowering of the form.

One of the qualities most admired by his contemporaries was his terribilità, a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned and highly personal style that resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance.

The David ( Michelangelo ) | Statue of David, completed by Michelangelo in 1504, is one of the most renowned works of the Renaissance.

Since the time of the Renaissance, siccative ( drying ) oil paints, primarily linseed oil, have been the most commonly used kind of paints in fine art applications ; oil paint is still common today.

His house in Rome became a center of Renaissance culture, and he himself corresponded with most of the leading humanists