Renaissance

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is an event raised on the shoulders of no more than a hundred men, educated and actively working in a new spirit.

Supposing someone believed that it would require no more than a hundred men educated and actively working in a new spirit to do away with the bogus form of culture which has just now become the fashion in Germany, how greatly it would strengthen him to realize that the culture of the Renaissance was raised on the shoulders of just such a band of a hundred men. (nietzsche 'untimely' : 'uses and abuses' 69)

is an epoch that was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters..

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

is a revival of letters which was not owing to any free government, but to the encouragement and protection of Leo X and Francis I; the one as absolute a pope, and the other as despotic a prince, as ever reigned.

Renaissance The revival of letters was not owing to any free government, but to the encouragement and protection of Leo X and Francis I; the one as absolute a pope, and the other as despotic a prince, as ever reigned.

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