Can anyone help me i need to find some information on renaissance writers,so can anyone give me a good website
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Check out www.luminarium.org\n\nThe Folger Shakespeare Library site has some good stuff as well.
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Also try pinkmonkey and spark notes.  Often if you just do a search for each specific title you will find a great deal of information.\n\nGood luck with it.
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Hi Nick, some of these are free but I would air on the side of caution if I were you.\n\nFREE ESSAYS and LETTERS.\n\nfree online resource for students of literature.\n\nhttp://www.freeessays.cc/free-essays-listing.shtml\n\nhttp://www.mytermpapers.com/\n\nhttp://www.wowessays.com/\n\nhttp://www.123helpme.com/\n\nhttp://www.cyberessays.com/\n\nhttp://www.allfreeessays.com/\n\nhttp://www.bgfl.org/services/foi/templates.htm\n\nhttp://uk.geocities.com/essays4free2000/index.html\n\nhttp://www.megaessays.com/\n\nhttp://www.midlandit.co.uk/education/index.htm\n\nhttp://www.thepaperexperts.com/personale\n\nhttp://www.freeforessay.com/\n\nhttp://members.tripod.com/\n\nhttp://www.academicdb.com/\n\nhttp://www.4freeessays.com/\n\nhttp://mrbraiman.com\n\nhttp://uk.geocities.com/essays4free2000/index.html\n\nUSEFUL LINKS\n\nTechniques\n\nIntroduction, body, and conclusion.\n\nhttp://library.exeter.edu/dept/citations/mag1.html\n\nhttp://www.hehs.d211.org/academics/index.html\n\nhttp://uk.geocities.com/essays4free2000/\n\nhttp://www.academicdb.com/\n\nhttp://www.world-english.org/\n\nhttp://www.netessays.net\n\nhttp://www.exampleessays.com\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com\n\nhttp://barronsbooknotes.com\n\nhttp://www.markthis.com/cliffnotes/cliff...\n\nhttp://www.getfreeessays.com\n\nhttp://www.allfreeessays.com/\n\nGood luck\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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The Internet is a great resource for these. Here's a few really good ones:\n\nhttp://www.writersonlineworkshops.com/\nhttp://www.worldwidelearn.com/online-courses/writing-courses.htm\nhttp://www.writers.com/\nhttp://www.englishonline.net/\n\nAnd here's a ton of FREE help: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/\n\nIf you ever need someone to look over your papers, here's a site with affordable pros: http://wordtechs.com/\n\nRegards,\n\n~Tia~\nYahoo Brainiac\nhttp://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/asktheplanet/brain.html
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OY.  Um, the English Renaissance (circa late 1400's) or the beginning of the Italian Renaissance (circa 1350).\n\nOkay, Old English 450-1066.  450 marks the Invasion of the Romans.  1080, the Battle of Hastings and thus the French influence.  \n\nMiddle English 1066-1449 --- French influence via the Normans.  (by the way, Chaucer is the main man when it comes to Middle English --- you can see it in the way he uses French in his works --- and while it may be possible, I highly doubt anyone has done a translation of CT into Old English --- esp considering the French words had no way of existing pre-French invasion.)\n\nModern English 1450-2006  --- Discovery of the New World, and more importantly, the printing press which stabilized literature.\n\nSo, the English spoken during the Renaissance is the same as now.  HOWEVER, you're sitting there thinking, like hell it is, and you'd be right.  It has evolved, changed and so forth.  \n\nShakespeare's English is what they spoke during the Renaissance.  He will be your best bet; however, keep in mind, the rhythm he writes in is not always what was spoken.  The iambic pentameter was a fancy way to write, and a stylized way to speak, very difficult to achieve, naturally.  \n\nThat being the case, you're going to find a lot of poetry from the Renaissance and not a lot of prose.  \n\nIn college consider taking Old English and Middle English courses to see how the English language developed. The direct answer is that we speak very similarly to the way they spoke then.  The changes aren't as drastic as in the first two periods (have you ever read Beowulf in Old English---it's a bear and not many people can do it).\n\nSo, until you get into some upper division English courses (or even MA and PhD work) start by picking up a Norton Anthology of English.  You can find them hella cheap on the internet.  It doesn't have to be the latest edition.  The works don't change, just the way they're ordered in the text and some commentary about the work---maybe a shred of new info.  I bought my fifth edition recently for about 5 bucks; however, the 8th is currently selling (the complete set) for about $130.  \n\nKey notes to help you further.  The beginning of Modern English used thou, thee, and thy much more.  That is like tu versus usted i espanol.  Tu is informal whereas usted is formal.  Take the popular "Our Father" for example.  Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.  Thy kingdom come, thy will be done...\n\nThy is a show of closeness and familiarity.  If the scholars/monks translated it as [your] it would show a rigid formality uncommon in a father/child setting.  \n\nIf I can be of any further assistance, let me know.
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You would probably be interested in reading "The End of Faith".\n\nCheck it out at http://www.samharris.org\n\nAnd for the record, I believe it would be the most glorious period in human history.  I would refer to it as the "Second Renaissance".  And I sincerely hope I live to see it.  :)
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The Scholar in His Study by Dora Thorton can be located in the History of Italy section. It is a book about the Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy. hope that helps
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There is lots of on line help for this novel.  These sites should give you all the information you need.  Best of luck with it.
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Here are a couple of good sites to look at for a lot of them.  Hope they are helpful!
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Try this hope it helps\nhttp://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/dec_ov/corbaccio/biblio.shtml
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"Renaissance" is the name given to the great intellectual movement in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries--a period which saw the transition from the Middle Ages to modern times. It began in the revolt of men of culture against the intellectual sterility and narrowness of the medieval spirit, and especially against scholasticism, whose pedantic and dogmatic narrowness had reached the extreme point of its development. The Renaissance began in Italy, and its first period (1300 to 1375) was marked by a universal revival of interest in classic literature and the classic ideals. It was a great revolt against bigotry and in favor of mental freedom and its first sign was a passion for the largeness and richness of the pagan world. Traces of this feeling can be seen in Dante(1265-1321), who, although thoroughly medieval in his sympathies, chose Virgil as his model, and who, in the vigor and magnificence of his own verse, was a striking contrast to the dull formalists who had before his time written for the men of the Middle Age.\nIn philosophy it gradually replaced the purely formal methods of thought that scholasticism had fostered; in science it led to the great discoveries of Galileo and Copernicus; in architecture it brought about the revival of the classic style; in art it developed the new school of painting of which Michael Augelo and Raphael in Italy were the great names, and still another school in the Netherlands and Flanders; in religion its influence is seen in the revolt of Luther; and it indirectly inspired the passion for exploration that led to the discovery of the New World.
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Here are some books on medieval Europe:\nhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&tag=richkahmerfin-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&path=external-search%3Fsearch-type=ss%26index=blended%26keyword=medieval%20ring%20europe
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A good site that covers lots of works by different authors, it includes, Themes, Character analysis, and explains every thing that you are ever going to need to answer literature questions.\n\nhttp://sparknotes.com/literature...\n\nType in the title of the book and navigate around until you find what you need.\n\nGood luck. Below, is another very useful site for you.\n\n\nhttp://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts.....
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My favorite has always been Shakespeare. There's lots of help on the web for it, and it's just classic. To understand Shakespeare will give you lots of laughs especially with these new teen movies out that rip him off :) Plus it's just cool to read the stories that have inspired people for hundreds of years.
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There are many.  The most comprehensive site that I can suggest to you is "sparknotes.com"  Once there navigate around and I am certain, all that you require to know, is there.  Trust me, it is the most informative site that I have ever come across, pass it on and good luck.\n\n                    Kevin.\nI found another for you to try,  http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts
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I found these...\n\nwww.jkwitherow.com\nwww.sinisterwisdom.org\nwww.creative-women.com\nwww.sappho.com/poetry\nwww.melswebs.com/poetry.htm\n\nhope that helps!  ^_^
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look on a database and go to a library. You can find research that will help you there look under literary databases.