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TITLE: Early Italian Renaissance

DESCRIPTION: Early Italian Renaissance = continued march toward naturalism. The wealthy di Medici family very influential in Florence. COSIMO DI MEDICI established 1st public library. They were proponents & friends of philosophers. Humanism on the rise = concentration on human values and how to live on earth (opposite of Ecclesiastical Doctrine = concentration on faith and getting to heaven). Italian Dating by centuries goes thusly: 1100's = millecento; 1200's = ducento; 1300's = trecento (GIOTTO WAS A TRECENTO PAINTER); 1400's = quattrocento (Early Renaissance in Italy); 1500's = cinquecento (High Renaissance in Italy); 1600's = seicento; 1700's = settecento; 1800's = ottocento; 1900's = novecento; 2000's (current day) = ventisimo secolo