Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Renaissance
- A period in European history
- Started in 14th century Italy, lasted
until the end of the 16th century
- Brought back many
classical principles.
- The Renaissance
means "Rebirth"
- Francesco Petrarch marked the
beginning of the Renaissance
- April 6th 1341
- A 'transition' between the Dark
Ages and the Modern Age
- Brought strong
intellectual, scientific, and
artistic development
- Writers and Key texts
- Edmund Spenser
- My Love Is Like To Ice
- Sonnet 67
- Andrew Marvell
- The Definition of Love
- Young Love
- To His Coy Mistress
- William Shakespeare
- Othello
- Romeo and Juliet
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Macbeth
- John Donne
- The Flea
- Farewell To Love
- Includes 'metaphysical' poetry