For example, Babcock argues that the Reformation is alive today for the reasons that Max Weber emphasized in his 1905 book "whose title gives the whole thesis away": The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. (Babcock 212)
Before the war with Austria broke out in 1859, there remains considerable concern regarding the role of Cavour in instigating the 1959 Austrian war. The concerns were legitimized when in 1959; the Italian leader Cavour secured the consent of Napoleon III regarding war with Austria (Kellogg, 181-182)
" The Renaissance was a "movement of self-assertion." (Muhlberger, 1999) in this work the two legacies of Petrarch are explained as well as the view of the humanists
Philosophy included an individual's creative prowess as well as a skill to reason. Many who subscribed to the humanist way of thinking believed that "humanists had an almost infinite faith in the liberalizing and improving power of classical education" (Cameron 72)
Di Vinci also delved into the sciences. He is the person most historian point to as the forerunner of the "new, experimental style known as mannerism" (Craig 440)
He, too, was breaking away from tradition because he viewed art differently than others sis. In his book, Michelangelo, William Lace states that Michelangelo was responsible for bringing realism to art and "freeing it from the stiff formality of the preceding centuries" (Lace 7)
The beginning of the Italian Renaissance is recognized as the early 1300s when painter Giotto di Bondone broke the traditional ways of doing things. Richard Tansey explains that Giotto's "true teacher" (Tansey 635) was nature and a "world of visual things" (635)
One aspect that contributed to the Renaissance was the matter of city-states in Italy. The fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries experienced "constant uncertainty, both economic and political" (Hooker)
One aspect that contributed to the Renaissance was the matter of city-states in Italy. The fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries experienced "constant uncertainty, both economic and political" (Hooker)
Bennett observes, "It was not a passion for elegant Latin which motivated the humanistic movement, but a search for guidance toward a new way of life. Religion and morality constituted the major field of discontent" (Bennett 5)
John and the Virgin Mary (as well as two others who may be representations of the artist's patrons). The naturalism with which Masaccio gives his subjects creates a three-dimensional effect as though the persons in the painting were molded by the paint and breathed with life (Johnson 258)
Fra Angelico's subjects are even more realistic and naturalistic because of their poses (some of the poor are hobbled, even lamed) and the sanctity of the deacon who took such good care of the poor. As the story goes, it was his love of the poor that led directly to his martyrdom (Kirsch)
The naturalistic beauty of the Christ gives a further lesson, which is that the Sacrament of the Eucharist is this same Christ, sacrificed during on the altar in an unbloody manner. The placement of each of these elements of religious symbology and naturalistic beauty tells all these things masterfully in Masaccio's Holy Trinity (McCarthy 48)
Indeed, it serves as a key to the didactic artwork. To understand how it does so, one must first inspect the sarcophagus in the lower portion of the fresco (Schlegel 19)
Humanism appeared in Italy and later penetrated to other western European countries. Interaction with Arab world allowed Italian merchants not only to establish permanent economical ties for imports of Eastern luxury goods to Europe but also allowed to rediscover works of antique authors and accept secular culture values and scientific knowledge of Arab Golden Age, which were inspired by works of ancient Roman and Greek authors: "Humanists emphasized the value of the classics for their own sake, rather than for their relevance to Christianity" (Hileman, 1) Benjamin Khol writes that origins of humanism appeared in works of late medieval Italian writers such as Dante Alighieri, Petrarch and Boccaccio who were among the first to rediscover classic literature genre
Nothing is more remarkable therefore than the rapid and irrevocable penetration of Italian ideas and practices among the "barbarians," as the Italian writers referred to them, some of whom were currently invading the peninsula." (Wiener, 124) it's also important to note that influence of antique classicism typical for Italian architecture of the 14-16th centuries is not observed in the north
Gender roles in Italian-American culture are highly traditional, with a particular emphasis on masculine control. Marianna De Marco-Torgovnick refers in Crossing Ocean Parkway to "the way Italian-Americans are trained to think about women" which is that "women can be good, but men are always better" (De Marco-Torgovnick 1997)
Cultural content was introduced by nurses who had served with the military during World War II, and had learned the necessity of understanding cultural differences. After World War II, experienced public health nurses were added to nursing faculties and were able to teach from their experience with different ethnic groups (Dougherty and Tripp-Reimer, 219)
They picked up on the particular egalitarian ethos of the community, which discouraged the wealthy from flaunting their success and helped the unsuccessful obscure their failures. (Gladwell 7-9) The lack of heart disease among the Italian-Americans of Roseto has been ascribed to the traditional Italian-American diet, which substitutes the use of olive oil for the use of butter and animal fats in cooking
Even more disturbing to the immigrant than the hostility of the Americans was the emergence of health problems they had seldom encountered in Italy. (Mangione and Morreale, 229-231)