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Renaissance Literature 董崇選 中山醫大應用外語系教授 「懂更懂學習英文網站」負責人 網址：dgdel.nchu.edu.tw I. Renaissance 的含義: A French word meaning “rebirth” Man and the World resurrected (復活). The revival of humanism. “How beauteous mankind is! Oh brave new world That has such people in it!” --The Tempest “This goodly frame, the earth ... this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’er-hanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire.” “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!” --Hamlet II. Renaissance 的時空: 1321 (Dante died) ~ 1600 the end of 14th C. to about 1600 1350 ~ 1650 the Age of da Vinci, Cervantes, and Shakespeare 達文西、塞凡提斯、莎士比亞 the Age of Protestant Reformation 宗教改革 the Age of Discovery 地理大發現 in Italy, France, Spain, England, Germany, Holland, etc. III. Renaissance 的背景 1. Geographical Explorations: The Polos, Dias, the Crusaders, Columbus, da Gama, Magellan, etc. 馬可波羅、狄亞士、十字軍、哥倫布、 達迦瑪、麥哲倫 等 2. Scientific Discoveries: Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler 牛頓、伽利略、哥白尼、喀卜勒 III. Renaissance 的背景: 3. Invention Spread of Printing Johannes Gutenberg’s movable type: 古 頓保 發明 活字版 4. Fall of Constantinople The Turks, the Greek scholars 君士坦丁堡陷入土耳其人手中，希腊學者四散 5. Movement of Protestantism 新教徒 (抗議教徒) 之運動 IV. Renaissance 的文學 In Italy: Petrarch (佩脫拉克) : Sonnets to Laura Sonnets to Laura in Life. Sonnets to Laura in Death A sonnet is a 14-line poem usually expressing Ideal Love. Such love is pure, lofty, undying. Petrarch’s sonnets have psychological subtleties but no philosophical depth. The poet is melancholy in contemplation of Beauty. He popularize