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Vocabulary Notes

Text 1 The Renaissance

Unit 2

The intensified study of Greek and Roman literature and the renewal of rhetorical education that characterized intellectual life in 15^th-century Italy had an effect on historical study; it encouraged a secular and realistic approach to political history, both ancient and modern. Leonardo Bruni, a student of the newly recovered works of Tacitus, reconsidered the history of Republican and imperial Rome and of his native Florence in the light of Roman experience.

In the 16th century Niccoló Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini wrote works that again set political history in a world bounded by human laws and human ambitions. This separation of ecclesiastical from secular materials of history is evident wherever Renaissance learning had influence in Europe.

renewal of rhetorical education – відновлення риторичної освіти

to have an effect on sth. – впливати на що-небудь

secular approach to sth. – світський підхід

experience - досвід

bounded by human laws and human ambitions – обмежені суспільними законами та людськими амбіціями

ecclesiastical materials – духовні, церковні матеріали

wherever – при будь-яких обставинах

1. What had an effect on historical study in 15^th-century Italy?

2. Who reconsidered the history of Republican and imperial Rome?

3. What was the contribution of Machiavelli and Guicciardini into the development of historical science?