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Renaissance Inventions: Classical Humanism, Embraced Then Rejected Renaissance humanism based on the pagan concepts of classical antiquity seemed like a good thing to mix in with church theology, but humanist scholars and the papacy couldn't quite make it work. Offer Thanks to Nero Why, one might ask, would modern civilization owe a debt of gratitude to the unpopular, infamous Roman emperor Nero, dead two thousand years now by his own hand? For those folks not tuned in to their own historical roots, Nero is an important part of your culture, not just a computer software tool for burning compact disks. Botticelli: From the Birth of Venus to a Bonfire of the Vanities Sandro Botticelli, the beloved Italian Renaissance artist we know so well today, died tragically several years after throwing many of his own works onto a bonfire at the urging of a fanatical religious reformer. If not for his resurrection by an ususual group of Victorian painters in the 19th century, we might not know him at all.