Question

Which statement about Petrarch's climb up Mont Ventoux is correct?

He climbed the mountain to visit a famous monastery on top, where he could examine Roman manuscripts.

The climb was inspired by his reading of the Roman historian Livy, and is the first known mountain climb for pleasure.

The experience caused him to question his faith, and later to leave the Christian church.

Forces of the Inquisition prevented him from making the climb.

Answer 1

He obviously achieved a recognition of a contradiction between the promising renaissance culture which as its source supposed ancient times (it was 'rebirth' of ancient times) and christian culture which was to absorb it. It was a difficulty, because Christianity already had its own history and its own notion of man and his place in the world (as subordinated to divine authority). But the world of Christians was corrupted and had to be illuminated by moral authority of the Classical. Thus emerged humanism.

Answer 2

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