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Question

How did the growth and development of independant trading cities, like florence and venice, encourage new interest in Humanism? details please? thanks! i'm REALLY DESPERATE!!!

Answer 1

The growth in trade created a new class of citizen, the Burgher, who lived outside of the feudal hierarchy which was in its dying days in Europe. As Burghers got more money they could afford luxuries like books, extremely expensive before Gutenberg's printing press. The only books available were historical chronicals, saint's lives, romances, reference books and greco-roman works. The accumulation of wealth also seems to divert people's attention from religion, leading many to feel little problem with reading pagan works in detail and with zeal, both which were neccessary for the humanist movement to grow.

Answer 2

Humanists believe that problems in society cannot be solved simply by praying, or relying on the church. The people in Florence and Venice generated new interest in Humanism because free trade allowed for economic growth and success for the residence, and patron citizens were helping out the poor. The Humanists felt that they could control their own destiny, that if they worked hard they could be successful, and that it was a matter of self-determination, and not a matter of God controlling every persons destiny.

Also, these cities experienced many people from classical cities, and people from Venice and Florence were interested in these things. As a result, they studied Latin and Greek, and eventually people got to around to studying what the great philosophers studied, grammar, rhetoric, moral philosophy, poetry and history. People had money to spend on studying these things, and people valued people who knew a lot about classical things.

Answer 3

Petrarch

Answer 4

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