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Assignment:
Primary Sources:
William of St. Thierry: "Two Accounts of the Early Career of St Bernard"
Thomas of Celano: "First & Second Lives of St. Francis"
Francisco Petrarch: "To Posterity"
Francisco Petrarch: "The Young Humanist of Ravenna"
Giorgio Vasari: "Life of Leonardo da Vinci"
Voltaire: "Letters on Newton"
Secondary Sources:
Hahn, Cynthia. "Picturing the Text: Narrative in the Life of the Saints." Art History, Vol. 13, No. 1 (March 1990), pp. 1-33.
Segre, Michael. "Viviani's Life of Galileo.' Isis, Vol. 80, No. 2 (Jun. 1989), pp. 217-21.
Find the differences and the similarity from all of the documents.
What picture of a good and virtuous life do the medieval documents paint? What picture do the Renaissance documents paint? What picture do the Scientific Revolution documents paint? What do people value in each case? How do these biographies give us insight into Medieval, Renaissance, and Scientific Revolution worldviews? How do the worldviews and values of the periods differ? What has changed between the periods? What remains the same? And, finally, how might we account for these changes?