Renaissance in Italy

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Chapter I The Spieit Op The Eenaissancb

rxoa Diffienlty of Fixing Date — Meaning of word Eenaissanee — The Emancipation of the Beason — ^Belation of Peudalism to the Eenaissanee— Mediteval Warnings of the Eenaissanee — Abelard, Bacon, Joachim of Flora, the Provenpals, the Heretics, Frederick II. — Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio — Physical Energy of the Italians — The Eevival of Learning — The Double Discovery of the World and of Man — Exploration of the Universe and of the Globe — Science— The Fine Arts and Scholarship — Art humanises the Conceptions of the Church — Three Stages in the History of Scholarship — The Age of Desire — The Age of Acquisition— The Legend of Julia's Corpse — The Age of the Printers and Critics — The Emancipation of the Conscience— The Beformation and the Modem Critical Spirit — Mechanical Inventions — The Place of Italy in the Eenaissanee ... 1