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Hanna Lee Explain the ways in which Italian Renaissance humanism transformed ideas about the individual's role in society

Humanism ideas Individual's Role * everything is done respectively to the above things
 * Study of classics
 * Petrarch used logic to find reason and faith
 * Cicero, who achieved civil humanism was admired by humanists
 * Neoplatonic heirarchy of substances
 * Platonic love: people are all bound in common humanity
 * //Oration on the Dignity of Man// by Merindola
 * Castiglone's //The Book of the Courtier//
 * Vergerio's //Concerning Character// about stressing liberal arts
 * Valla's //The Elegance of the Latin Language//
 * Learned grammar, rhetoric, poetry and philosophy
 * More use of classic Latin language
 * Participated in state affairs
 * Believed they were link to earth and heaven
 * Everybody was to love on another
 * Humans had the ability to better themselves
 * Certain requirments had to be met in order to be considered a noble
 * Said humans could reach full potential
 * Created new literary standard