The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization Paul Strathern
The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization Paul Strathern A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth…
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The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization Paul Strathern
A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance.Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something happened that transformed the entire culture of western civilization. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely new aspect. Painting, sculpture, and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on what had taken place.
These ideas, which placed an increasing emphasis on the development of our common humanity--rather than other-worldly spirituality--coalesced in what came to be known as humanism. Sciences would be born--or emerge in an entirely new guise.The ideas that broke this mold began, and continued to flourish, in the city of Florence in northern central Italy. This philosophy
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