Italian Renaissance Vs.

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understand Christianity and restore its moral vitality. They generally regarded universities as centers of pedantic, monkish, and �scholastic� learning. These universities gave little interest to experimental science or even literary studies. The Italian humanists wrote in Latin, but often complained that it had become monkish, �scholastic�, and in some ways useless. The schools in Italy preferred the more classical style of Cicero or Livy. Francesco Petrarca, or Petracrch, is known as the first man of letters. He criticized both the law and the clergy relentlessly. Lorenzo Valla became one of the founders for textual criticism and of his many accomplishments he proved the Donation of Constantine a forgery.
The most important element of the northern Renaissance was religion. In Italy the religious sense, if not gone completely, was passed into a cult in which God was glorified by works of art. In the north it took on a more mystical and more of a moral tone. The ...

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