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Elaborate the contributions of three Renaissance artists from the following list: 1) Francesco Petrarch 2) Baldassare Castiglione 3) Lucretia Marinella 4) Leonardo da Vinci 5) Michelangelo Buonarroti 6) William Shakespeare ubric:

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Contributions of the following renaissance artists are explained below:

· Francesco Petrarch

• The major work: poetry in the Renaissance
• Petrarch can be said as inventor of the sonnet
• Also developer of extended metaphor
• Considered model for poets (lyrical)
• Popular sonnet: Petrarchan Sonnet
• The first biography from classical era was written by Petrarch
• Famous as a great prose writer
• Petrarch recognized humanists who study history marks new period that would help to revive glory of Rome, Greece (distinct from dark age)
• His concept of Renaissance was influential

· Baldassare Castiglione

• Certain ideals were expected to be fulfilled by aristocrats as written in his work, “The Book of the Courtier”
• The Renaissance noble’s features were described in his work
• His work explained that nobles are supposed to have talent, grace etc.
• He has represented the humanist gentleman as a man of the following :
  • Self control
  • Refinement

· Lucretia Marinella

• Well known as expression of strong feminist views
• Confronted male authority (first female writer)
• Works in which she expressed her views as mentioned above include:
  • The nobility and excellence of women, with the defects and vices of men
  • The defects of women
• Women are more virtuous as explained by her with examples in her works
• She criticized authors (Boccaccio, Sperone Speroni etc) who expressed negative views on women and explained that the women should not be viewed evil wih respect to a single evil woman
• Her work ,” The worth of women” explained female inequality in Venice by the documentation of 7 noble women
• She explained the inequalities:
  • No opportunity to have education
  • Mistreated by men
  • Lack of their access to their dowry