Discuss the social context to the emergence of the Renaissance in Italy.?10M
Discuss the social context to the emergence of the Renaissance in Italy.? Renaissance Italy had distinctive features. Social mobilit y in Italy was higher than elsewhere in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Individual cases of upward mobility of peasants turned artists from Giotto to Beccafumi is striking.he rate of social mobility in Renaissance Italy, one could assert that it was relatively high in the cities of fifteenth-century Italy, such as Florence, with ‘new men’ coming in from the countryside and becoming citizens and holding office. The Italian society was by and large a highly urban one. It did not fit into the traditional model of a society divided into clergy, nobles and peasants. Renaissance Florence and other cities were populated with the bourgeois comprising merchants, professional men, craftsmen and shop-keepers. While rich merchants acted as patrons, the craftsmen sired the artists and the professional men sired the writers and humanists. The painte...
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