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Overview of the Renaissance Era

The Renaissance was a cultural movement in Western Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries, marked by significant developments in art, literature, and architecture. Key figures included Niccolò Machiavelli, Erasmus, and Thomas More, who contributed to political philosophy and humanism. The document also summarizes the plot of 'Don Quixote de la Mancha' and highlights important works by various authors of the period.

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Overview of the Renaissance Era

The Renaissance was a cultural movement in Western Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries, marked by significant developments in art, literature, and architecture. Key figures included Niccolò Machiavelli, Erasmus, and Thomas More, who contributed to political philosophy and humanism. The document also summarizes the plot of 'Don Quixote de la Mancha' and highlights important works by various authors of the period.

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Renaissance

It is the name given to a broad movement


cultural that took place in Europe
West during the 15th and 16th centuries.

WORKS

ITALIA FRANCIA ALEMANIA

Medici-Riccardi Palace. Château de Chambord. Heidelberg Castle.


Bartolomeo Michelozzo. Chenonceau Palace. The Church of San Miguel in Munich.
The Library of San Marcos Pierre Nepveu. The Women's Church in Dresden.
Jacopo Sansovino. The Louvre Palace (Paris.)
Donato Bramante. The Palace of Fontainebleau.
The Vidoni Palace (Paris.)
Pedro (Rome) Pierre Lescot.
The Laurentian Library.
The Three Palaces of Capitolio
Michelangelo Buonarroti.
The Etrozzi Palace.
Beneeto from Majano.
The Dome of the Milan Cathedral.
The Cathedral of Pavia.

LITERATURE

Niccolò Machiavelli:
(Florence, May 3, 1469 - Florence, June 21, 1527) was a diplomat, official
public, political philosopher and Italian writer. He was also a relevant figure of the Renaissance
In 1513 he published his treatise on political doctrine titled The Prince.

Erasmus of Rotterdam:
Known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, born Geert Geertsen, also called
Gerrit Gerritszoon (Gerardo, son of Gerardo), was a humanist, philosopher, philologist, and theologian.
Dutch, author of important works in Latin.

Thomas More
He was an English thinker, theologian, politician, humanist, and writer, who was also a poet.
translator, chancellor of Henry VIII, law professor, civil business judge and lawyer. His
his most famous work is Utopia, where he seeks to depict the organization of an ideal society.
PLOT OF DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA

Alonso Quijano is a nobleman of about 50 years old, who read so many chivalry books that he became
crazy, one day he decided that he would become a knight-errant and that he would be called Don Quixote of La Mancha and
his beloved would be called Dulcinea del Toboso. One morning Don Quijote begins his adventure and
he goes to a sale because he is called a knight, when he is already called a knight he finds himself
with some merchants, he fights and falls to the ground, he was lucky that a neighbor of his happened to pass by and helped him.
will take [him/her] home.

One day a friend of his named Sancho Panza came to see him and asked to accompany him in his ...
adventures. The two of them go through many hardships. Don Quijote shows that he is crazy in many
occasions such as when he attacks windmills thinking they are some
big giants, when they attack some friars who are carrying a lady thinking they are some
kidnappers, when it attacks a flock of sheep thinking it is a huge army, when
You free some galley slaves when you put a helmet on your head thinking it is a hat.
etc.
One day Don Quixote asks his companion Sancho Panza to take a letter to Dulcinea, and
Sancho meets Don Quixote's friends, the barber and the priest, who want to return him to
her house, then a woman pretends to be a princess who wants him to kill a giant,
Don Quijote falls into the trap and is caged and taken back to his home.
At the same time, another writer named Avalleneda writes another false second part of Don Quixote.
Don Quijote and Sancho set out again, this time heading to Toboso to look for the palace of
Dulcinea but they cannot find her since she does not exist, Sancho begins to deceive his master in some.
occasion as in the fragment of the farm women, where one of them is made to pass as Dulcinea.
A friend of Don Quixote named the Bachelor Carrasco goes out to look for him to take him back home and
he pretends to be the knight of the Forest who challenges Don Quixote in Sierra Morena, provoking him.
telling you that he yes the a defeated, but Mr. Quixote the win.
Later on, some dukes want to mock Don Quixote and Sancho and tell them that a
the princess is enchanted and to break the spell, they have to ride a flying wooden horse.
After this, to mock Sancho, they give him an island to govern called Barataria.
And Don Quijote, to help him, advises him not to say proverbs since many are nonsense.
what sea clean enter others things y what no coma garlic you onions.
The first thing they do to Sancho is have him preside over a trial between two people, and then they take him.
the palace to eat, but a doctor who cares for his health does not let him eat the dishes since he
they can do harm, and to finish humiliating Sancho they tell him that his island will be attacked, but
feeling tired of being governor, he decides to leave and go in search of his master, Don Quixote.
When they have found their master, they head to Zaragoza and rest at an inn where
they hear that they are reading the false second part of the Quijote written by Avellaneda.
Don Quixote gets very angry because the book says that he is no longer in love with Dulcinea and
also that the book is written in Aragonese dialect and decides that he will not go to Zaragoza but to
Barcelona.
When in Barcelona, he encounters the knight of the white moon and challenges him to a duel, Don
Quixote loses and is condemned to retreat for a year, the Knight of the White Moon turns out to be
the Bachelor Carrasco a friend of Don Quixote who wants to return him home, it is the second time
He tries. The first time he disguised himself as the knight of the forest, but he lost.
Already at his home, Don Quixote is very ill and says that he was crazy for becoming a knight.
andante and also criticizes the chivalric books, his last words were, now I am no longer Don
Quixote, now I am Alonso Quijano and he has died.
MOST IMPORTANT WORKS

Pedro Calderón de la Francisco de Quevedo


BARCA

Poetic Anthology
Spanish Parnassus (Sonnets)
A secret grievance, secret vengeance
Burlesque Poetry. Volume I: Romances
The Mayor of Zalamea Burlesque Poetry. Volume II: Jácaras and Dances
Love, honor, and power Sonnet in manuscripts
Sonnets from the 'Antequerano Songbook'
Andromeda and Perseus Sonnets found in various places
The dawn in Copacabana Throw the stone and hide the hand
The three muses Castilian victims.

LUIS DE GONGORA
LOUIS DE GONGORA

His poetry is usually grouped into two blocks, poems The Host (Molière)
minors and adults, corresponding more or less to The Distracted or the Setbacks
two successive poetic stages. In his youth, Góngora
composed numerousromances, of literary inspiration, The miser
like that of Angelica and Medoro, of captives, of theme The Bourgeois Gentleman
pirate-like or with a more personal and lyrical tone, some of them
Don Juan (Molière)
of an autobiographical nature in which he narrates his memories
infantile, as well as numerous lyrical and satirical verses and The Misanthrope
burlesque romances. The doctor by blows
The Imaginary Invalid
The School of Women
Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz
The School of Husbands
The wise women
Dramatic The ridiculous precious ones
The Pawns of a House The Tricks of Scapin
Love is more of a labyrinth
Sacramental autos
The Divine Narcissus
The scepter of Joseph
The martyr of the sacrament

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