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	Dante and Pet

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7-26-2006 1:40 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ffa9d107-5aa8-4357-beb0-0e4cc0727c25/9E7775B8-C9B2-4C1F-8F85-C2A252A9C6AF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture4a.html" href="http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture4a.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.historyguide.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture4a.html"><P><A href="http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/">Dante</A> was as
    full of models from the ancient world as he was of the late 13th and early 14th century.
    When he died in 1321, the father of the Italian Renaissance, <A href="http://petrarch.freeservers.com/">Francesco Petrarcha</A> (1304-1374), had
    just reached his seventeenth birthday. The great Petrarch, symbol of all that was the
    Italian Renaissance, would cast Aristotle aside. Scholasticism, that great medieval
    combination of Theology and Philosophy, was also abandoned by Petrarch. "How many
    angels can dance on the head of a pin?" asked the medieval Scholastic. We can only
    imagine Petrarch's response -- "who cares?" he might have said. Petrarch was
    more interested in the glories of this world. But, he looked backward, and found in Cicero
    a lamentation for the present. In other words, the meaning of the Renaissance came from
    the classical past. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9E7775B8-C9B2-4C1F-8F85-C2A252A9C6AF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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