Renaissance culture paired perfected individuality with transcendence of local milieus.

Evidence

In a more intuitively obvious configuration, the culture of the Italian Renaissance has conformed to this norm. On the one hand, it developed perfect individuality; on the other hand, it developed a disposition and a morality that transcended by far the boundaries of the narrower social milieu. This is explicit, for example, in the words of Dante where he says that—with all his passionate love for Florence—the world is as much home to him and his kind as the sea to fish. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 661

Categorization

• XREF: Dante’s ‘world is home’ is a direct historical template for Julius’s unmoored cosmopolitan wandering beyond New York/Brussels. — connects to: Culture requires routing one’s perfection through external objects and spheres — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 555; Stoic individualism was complemented by cosmopolitanism rooted in universal Reason. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 658; Medieval knighthood fused individual authenticity with cosmopolitanism. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 659 (+5 more)
• CANDY: Dante’s line about the world being home to his kind ‘as the sea to fish’ is a memorable, quotable instance of the cosmopolitan-individual nexus.

Broader Connections

• Local place-based relations gave pre-modern communities solidity #qualifies (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 247
• Medieval knighthood fused individual authenticity with cosmopolitanism. #corroborates (0.70) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 659
• Individual diversity can be conceived as a division of labor among unique beings #expands (0.50) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 691