Humanism And the Renaissance The great intellectual movement of Renaissance Italy was humanism. Renaissance humanism is the spirit of learning that developed at the end of the middle ages with the revival of classical letters and a renewed confidence in the ability of human beings to determine for themselves truth and falsehood. The humanists believed that the Greek and Latin classics contained both all the lessons one needed to lead a moral and effective life …
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…ways. It places an emphasis on the individual and our feelings and thoughts. In the arts, the artists captured the subjects personalities. They experimented to make them look more lifelike. Writers expressed their views on more worldly subjects such as politics and wrote in the vernacular language, Latin, instead of Italian. Writers focused on the topics of individual ambition and success. Humanism encouraged a ferment of new ideas that spread throughout Europe and the world.