[lit-ideas] Re: Renaissance Man as a Double Misnomer
- From: John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:24:45 -0600
Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
I find the idea of Renaissance OFFENSIVE. The Graeco-Roman
civilisation (ideals, education) never PERISHED. Only the stupid
Italian pompous claim that that civilisation did perish justify their
equally pompous idea that Firenze will be the place for that divine
resurrection (renaissance)
"If you never died, you are never re-born"
Often the people DOING something aren't the ones who wind up NAMING what
they did. Example: "Gothic" cathedrals were so named by the decidedly
non-Goth Italians, as a derogatory term. Likewise, the "renaissance"
was invented by a Frenchman (Jules Michelet) and then popularized by a
German (Jacob Burckhardt).
The Florentines, I suspect, would not approve of this term either.
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John Wager john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx
Lisle, IL, USA
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