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The Worlds of the Renaissance: Projects

The Renaissance from Diverse Perspectives

1) How Does an Individual's Gender Affect Their Role in Society?
2) What is an Ideal Society: Florence vs. Venice?
3)What is Good vs. Bad Government?

Kim Smolik

Contents

• Introduction
• How does gender affect an individual's role in society?
  1. Original sources
     1. Primary Source Documents
        1. Excerpts from Ludovico to Isotta on the Sin of Adam and Eve
           • Student Questions
        2. Excerpts from Vergerius to Ubertinus of Carrara
           • Student Questions
        3. Excerpts from On the Study of Literature: to Lady Battista Malatesta of Montefeltro
           • Student Questions
  2. Teacher's Notes
  3. Web site suggestions for student research
• What is an ideal society?
  1. Original Sources
     1. Florence
        1. Primary Source Documents
           • Excerpt from Lives of the Artists: Michelangelo by Giorgio Vasari
             • Student Questions
           • Excerpt from Panegyric to the City of Florence by Leonardo Bruni
             • Student Questions
     2. Venice
        1. Primary Source Documents
           • Excerpts from Venice: A Documentary History, 1450-1630
             • Student Questions
  2. Teacher's notes
  3. Web site suggestions for student research
• What is Good Government vs. Bad Government?
  1. Original Sources
     1. Primary Source Documents
        1. Excerpts from Praise of Folly by Erasmus
           • Student Questions
        2. Excerpts from The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
           • Student Questions
        3. Excerpts from Panegyric to the City of Florence by Leonardo Bruni
  2. Teacher's notes
  3. Web site suggestions for student research
• Vocabulary for Artistic Critique and Understanding
• Bibliography

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