I.) DEFINITION & CAUSES FOR THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE (Many Online Resources)

1. Passing of the Corp., Hier., Trad., Pers., Chr-Moral M-A; Renaissance v the best of Medieval Art
2. Political, Social, Economic Changes, the Plague; Medieval & Renaissance Primary Sources
3. The New Intellectual View Conquers all: Burchhardt's Classics, State & Individual; Map of Florence and surrounding area
4. The Studia Humanitatis as the Institutionalized Basis and Fountain
• The Curriculum
• The Point of View
5. Origins of Modern Democracy in Conciliarism & Parliament
• King and Parliament; Pope and Council
• The Failure of Magna Carta, and its Success
• The Council of Pisa, then of Constance, 1415: Sacrosancta, Frequens
• The subsequent outcome of both sides: Tierney on 1689

1. Petrarch (1304-74): To Posterity, about himself, To Cicero (!) Ascent of Mt Ventoux
2. Pico della Mirandola on Human Dignity
3. Castiglione's 'Renaissance Man'
4. Machiavelli's Prince -- new way of thinking about politics
5. Botticelli's Platonic Beauty in Venus: The Art of Boticelli
6. Leonardo da Vinci; Vasari's Life of Leonardo
7. Michelangelo: A David, Dome and a Creation Story
8. Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto
9. Christine de Pisan & Links; To what extent does she fit the Renaissance context?
10. Some 'Observations' on Renaissance Art:

1. Sailing: the Key to discovery and trade
2. Printing Press: Foundation of the Reformation
3. Applying inventions from gunpowder and compass to (later) the telescope
4. The Modern World -- us -- just around the corner?