Average Age

It died in 1321, being embedded in Ravena, walks currently its mortal remains meet. We are speaking here of a poet-philosopher who lived in a period of transistion between the Average Age and the renaissance, where predominated the hegemony politics of the Church Catholic. In this context the Church possua the absolute power, that is, was the maximum authority, condemning to the Court of the Inquisition all the ones that if opposed it. Beyond this supremacy of the Church, Italy lived in a commercial weakness, the economy was ruralizada, the production system was feudal and the hierarquizada society (Noble/Clergy/People). The predominant humanismo characterized for a new vision of the man in relation the God and, in relation itself exactly. This new vision elapses at the time of the new lived social and economic reality. The social pyramid of the medieval age, already does not exist more, thanks to the sprouting of a new social classroom: the bourgeoisie, whose name if originates from the word ' ' burgos' ' that she wants to say city. The sprouting of the cities must it the increment of the commerce that was to the base of sustentation of this new social classroom.

The cities in turn, offered a new option of life for the peasants who abandoned the field. This fact initiated the afrouxamento of the feudal regimen of servitude. At this time also it has beginning the great navigations, that take the people to value the conquests increasingly human beings. These agreed factors lead to a process that reaches its maximum point in the Renaissance. As consequncia of this new social reality, the Teocentrismo nailed and defended durantes as many years for the previous classrooms, it starts to give place for the Antropocentrismo, new vision where the man if places as being the center of the Universe. In the effective culture, this process of changes also has its effect, therefore, the man passes if to face as human being, and not more as the image of God.