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Renaissance humanism

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Italian Renaissance: Art, Science, and Humanism in Florence

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Humanism Shapes the Renaissance: Ideas that Informed the American Founders, Part 39

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Why Is Humanism Important to the Renaissance?

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What was Renaissance Humanism?

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Humanism and the Renaissance

Renaissance humanism is the study of classical antiquity, at first in Italy and then spreading across Western Europe in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. The term Renaissance humanism is contemporary to that period — Renaissance and "humanist".