Hacker News with Generative AI: Renaissance

Methodical Banality (aeon.co)
The Renaissance scholar and educator Erasmus of Rotterdam opens his polemical treatise The Ciceronian (1528) by describing the utterly dysfunctional writing process of a character named Nosoponus.

Writing, Philosophy, History, Renaissance

42 points by CharlesW 45 days ago | 12 comments

Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic? (historytoday.com)
An enfant terrible shook up Renaissance medicine by denouncing experts and debunking accepted wisdom. Was Paracelsus as radical as he seemed?

Renaissance, Medicine, History, Science

6 points by drdee 235 days ago | 7 comments

Italian 'Fruit Detective' Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings (smithsonianmag.com)
When Isabella Dalla Ragione assesses a Renaissance painting, she doesn’t immediately notice the brushstrokes or the magnificence of the imagery. The first thing she notices is the fruit.

Art History, Renaissance, Italy

4 points by prismatic 251 days ago | 0 comments

Remembering a Medieval Polymath Who Paved the Way for the Renaissance (worldsensorium.com)

History, Renaissance, Medieval History

70 points by dnetesn 321 days ago | 38 comments