Brief Discussion On Civic Humanism Of Florence

At the end of the fourteen and the beginning of the fifteen century, some young humanists such as Salutati and Bruni put forward civic humanism in Florence of Italy. It is the outcome of the social comprehensive development. It inherits Pertrach and Boccacio's idea. But its world outlook and values are different from that of their believers. Their republic political outlook is with freedom at the core, secular moral principle is with virtue at the core, values is with active live at the core. Civic humanists strike the traditional idea of feudal Gods heavily and has important effects on Florence and even Italy and the west of Europe. The text is about to make preliminary discussion on its historical background, main characteristics, historic significance.