Humanism in Renaissance Literature

Renaissance age was a period of literature enlightenment and revolutionary rebirth of the classical world ( Latin and Greek classics ). Two opposed movements appeared during the Renaissance were Scholastic which adopted beliefs of ancient writers to support the corrupted church, and the Humanism movement was against the greedy and corrupted church at that time it places the human beings at the centre of the universe. It took its name from the studi humanitatis, those studies (grammar, …

…tears return again Into my breast and eyes, which I have spent, That I might in this holy discontent Mourn with some fruit, as I have mourned in vain; In mine Idolat'ry what showers of rain Mine eyes did waste? What griefs my heart did rent? That sufferance was my sin; now I repent Cause I did suffer I must suffer pain. His poerty shows his elegance in mind and excessive longing for human learning.