THE RENAISSANCE: 1485-1625

ITALY: BIRTHPLACE OF THE RENAISSANCE

Dante Alighieri:

The Divine Comedy

ITALY - CONTINUED

Francesco Petrarch

Invented the Petrarchan sonnet (14 lines) : abbaabba; cdecde

Also called Italian sonnet

DA VINCI

Leonardo da Vinci

(1452-1519)

Artist

Scientist

MICHELANGELO

1475-1564Painter and sculptor

RELIGION AND THE RENAISSANCE

Questions about Roman Catholicism

Exile to Avignon

Growing sense of nationalism

New edition of the New Testament by Erasmus

(asked questions about standard Church

interpretations of the Bible)

Growth of humanism (emphasis on humanity’s

place on Earth, revival of classical studies)

PROTESTANT REFORMATION

Martin Luther1483-1546Germany

John Calvin1509-1564Switzerland

THE RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND: ROYALTY

Henry VIII (1509-1547): Religious sea change in England from Catholic to Protestant

Edward VI(1547-1553): Mother Jane Seymour - King from age 9-15

Mary I: “Bloody Mary” (1553-1558) Mother Catherine of Aragon – Catholic

ELIZABETHAN AGE

Elizabeth I (1558-1603) Mother Anne Boleyn: Last of the Tudors – Elizabethan Period

• Renaissance education• Widely read in the classics• Policy of religious tolerance• Excellent negotiation skills• Orchestrated the defeat of

the Spanish Armada

JACOBEAN PERIOD

Designated by Elizabeth I as

future king

First in line of Stuart royalty Son of Mary, Queen of Scots

(cousin of Elizabeth I) Commissioned a new version of

the Bible on the advice of Protestant clergy

James I (1603-1625) – James VI of Scotland

ELIZABETHAN DRAMA

There was a movement away from religious

subjects

Plays were written in blank verse

Playwrights were often poets

Comedies and tragedies were based upon the

classic Greek and Roman models

ELIZABETHAN POETRY

Poetry moved from narrative to lyric

Narrative: tells a story in verse

Lyric: expresses the observations and feelings of a

single speaker

Sonnets (form of lyric poetry)• Spenserian: abab bcbc cdcd cc• Shakespearean: abab cdcd efef gg