1. Intro to the Renaissance

2. If injury has to be done to a man, it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared
-Niccolo Machiavelli
The Promise given was a necessity of the past, the word broken is a necessity of the present
-Niccolo Machiavelli

4. “Suspicion is the cancer of friendship”
“To be able to say how much you love is to love but little”
“Hope and desire mutually intensify each other, so that when one is cold, both freeze”

5. Utopia?

6. https://youtu.be/Vufba_ZcoR0?t=8m22s

7. Humanism

8. Definition New way of looking at the world (worldview)
Emphasized education/critical thinking (finding out how things worked, similar to “scholasticism”)
Believed in individual achievement and human dignity

9. Scholars read Greek and Roman grammar, history, poetry, rhetoric (Speech)
(No longer just philosophy, science, math)

10. (Clarification) Humanists did NOT separate totally from the church
(They only placed GREATER EMPHASIS on the human individual)