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The two principal components of Renaissance style are the following: a revival of the classical forms originally developed by the ancient Greeks and Romans, and an intensified concern in humanism and assertion of the importance of the individual. The Renaissance period in art history corresponds to the beginning of the great Western age of discovery and exploration when a general desire developed to examine all aspects of nature and the world. During the this time, …

…that include De genealogia deorum gentilium, a collection of classical myths, and the Decameron, a book of 100 stories told by Italian courtesans taking shelter from the Black Plague. Coluccio Salutati was a Florentine political bureaucrat who wrote treatises on humanism, taught scholars such as Poggio and Bruni, and accumulated a large library of ancient Greek and Roman texts. References: Fiero, G. K. (2002). The humanistic tradition. (4th. ed. Combo), Books 3, 4, 5 & 6. New York: McGraw Hill.