1. THE RENAISSANCE: 1485-1625

2. ITALY: BIRTHPLACE OF THE RENAISSANCE  Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy

3. ITALY - CONTINUED Francesco Petrarch Invented the Petrarchan sonnet (14 lines) : abbaabba; cdecde  Also called Italian sonnet

4. DA VINCI Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)  Artist  Scientist

5. MICHELANGELO 1475-1564 Painter and sculptor

6. 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)

7. PROTESTANT REFORMATION Martin Luther 1483-1546 Germany John Calvin 1509-1564 Switzerland

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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