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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7757541, member: 115909&quot;]Well in all fairness the Renaissance was simply the re-discovery of Ancient Greek &amp; Roman texts and ideas that had been lost in the Middle Ages when people were mostly focused on religious texts.</p><p><br /></p><p>In fact The poet Beccadeli sold a country home for funding to purchase one manuscript of Livy’s “Ab Urbe Condita Libra” copied by Poggio.</p><p><br /></p><p>“The intellectual basis of the Renaissance was its version of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Renaissance_humanism" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Renaissance_humanism" rel="nofollow">humanism</a>, derived from the concept of Roman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Humanitas" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Humanitas" rel="nofollow">humanitas</a> and the rediscovery of classical Greek philosophy, such as that of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Protagoras" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Protagoras" rel="nofollow">Protagoras</a>, who said that &quot;man is the measure of all things&quot;. This new thinking became manifest in art, architecture, politics, science and literature. Early examples were the development of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Perspective_(graphical)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Perspective_(graphical)" rel="nofollow">perspective</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Oil_painting" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Oil_painting" rel="nofollow">oil painting</a> and the revived knowledge of how to make <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Concrete" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Concrete" rel="nofollow">concrete</a>. ”[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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