The Power of the Individual: Humanists?

Every depression is followed by a recession, as was Europe's Medieval Ages followed by the Renaissance. While the Medieval ages were known as the rock bottom of European life, the Renaissance was famous for many things such as the beginning of humanism, the focus on individuals here and now, which was the combination of individualism, secularism and classicism. Lorenzo De' Medici was one of the few genuine humanists during the Renaissance because he was an art patron and de facto ruler of Florence, and through this position he expressed his individualism, secularism and classicism.…