第五章 The Renaissance and Religious Ref
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t， were brought back from Byzantium to Western Europe and engaged Western scholars for the first time since late antiquity. This new engagement with Greek Christian works， and particularly the return to the original Greek of the New Testament promoted by humanists Lorenzo Valla and Erasmus， would help pave the way for the Protestant Reformation. ??Artists such as Masaccio strove to portray the human form realistically， developing techniques to render perspective and light more naturally. Political philosophers， most famously Niccolò Machiavelli， sought to describe political life as it really was， that is to understand it rationally. A critical contribution to Italian Renaissance hu