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In the 1420s a man trained as a goldsmith, not an architect, promised to roof the biggest hole in Florence, a cathedral opening more than forty meters across, without any of the wooden scaffolding everyone believed was required. He did it, and his dome is still the largest masonry dome on Earth. That kind of nerve, part learning and part showmanship, runs through the whole Renaissance.

Here you will meet book hunters who found lost ancient works in monastery libraries, the Medici bankers who paid for genius and the friar who burned it, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael at work, and Machiavelli writing about power after being tortured by it. Then the course asks a harder question: the age that celebrated the dignity of man also kept slaves and conquered continents, so whose dignity did it really mean?

Levels

  1. 1 1. What Was the Renaissance? 5-question quiz
  2. 2 2. Petrarch and the Birth of Humanism 5-question quiz
  3. 3 3. Florence and the Medici 5-question quiz
  4. 4 4. Seeing Anew: Perspective, Sculpture and Painting 5-question quiz
  5. 5 5. The High Renaissance: Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael 5-question quiz
  6. 6 6. Power and Politics: Machiavelli, Popes and Princes 5-question quiz
  7. 7 7. The Renaissance Spreads North 5-question quiz
  8. 8 8. The Dignity of Man: Legacy and Debates 5-question quiz

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