EXPERIENCE AND DISCOVERY MARITIME

THE EXPERIMENT OF IMPACT ON RENAISSANCE SPEECH

Abstract

This article seeks to present a debate on the role played by the notion of experience in European intellectual atmosphere of the sixteenth century, highlighting how the experiential practice outside revalued by the Renaissance scholars, culminating in the production of new forms of knowledge very well defined, and now, even the dialogue with the academic knowledge. Thus, the experiment will demonstrate how started to be frequently used as a means and method for the production of knowledge. Constantly sixteenth century authors used up to this concept, among other things, to question the ancient authors, hitherto taken as infallible authorities by scholar’s means.