Renaissance : The Renaissance

Renaissance was also the name of a 1970s progressive rock group. This entry is about the Renaissance.

---

The Renaissance was a cultural movement and time period in the History of Europe, considered to mark the end of the Middle Ages. The Renaissance is usually considered to have begun in the 14th century in Italy and the 16th century in northern Europe. It is also known as "Rinascimento" (in Italian).

"Renaissance" is a French word that literally means rebirth. This name has been historically used in contrast to the Dark Ages, a term coined by Petrarch to refer to what we now call the Middle Ages. Following Petrarch's lead, the term had long been considered appropriate because during the Renaissance, the literature and culture of the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome were adopted by scholars and artists in Italy, and widely disseminated through printing. During the last quarter of the 20th century, however, more and more scholars began to take a view that the Renaissance was perhaps only one of many such movements. This was in large part due to the work of historians like Charles H. Haskins[?], who made convincing cases for a "Renaissance of the 12th century," as well as by historians arguing for a "Carolingian renaissance." Both of these concepts are now accepted by the scholarly community at large; as a result, the present trend among historians is to discuss each so-called renaissance in more particular terms, e.g., the Italian Renaissance, the English Renaissance, etc. This terminology is particularly useful because it eliminates the need for fitting "The renaissance" into a chronology that previously held that it was preceded by the Middle Ages and followed by the Reformation, which was sometimes patently false. The entire period is now more often replaced by the term 'Early Modern' in the practice of historians. See periodization.

The following article discusses the Renaissance in its most traditional form, as a cultural and scientific rebirth that began in 14th c. Italy, where one of its main centers was Florence, and then spread throughout Europe. In science, theology, literature and art, the Renaissance began with a rediscovery of and focus on older Greek texts which had disappeared from the West in the latter years of the Roman Empire. Towards the end of the Renaissance, scientists increasingly began to reject Greek (and biblical) sources in favor of new discoveries. Theologians continued to focus on the Greek, as well as on the relatively new study Hebrew and Aramaic. The second half of the Renaissance is also the period of the Reformation.

Rinascimento is also considered as a sort of natural evolution of Italian Umanesimo[?].

Some historians mark the end of the Renaissance as May 6, 1527, when Spanish and German troops sacked Rome. In music history the end date is usually given as 1600, or even 1620.

Important Renaissance Political Leaders:

• Italian Renaissance
  • Leonardo Bruni
  • Isabella dEste
  • Francesco Foscari
  • Cosimo de Medici
  • Lorenzo de Medici (a.k.a. Lorenzo il Magnifico)
  • Coluccio Salutati
  • Francesco Sforza
• Northern European Renaissance
  • Francis I of France
  • Henry VIII of England
  • Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Important Renaissance Religious Figures:

• Pope Nicholas V
• Pope Pius II
• Pope Sixtus IV
• Pope Alexander VI
• Pope Julius II
• Pope Leo X
• Girolamo Savonarola
• Martin Luther

Important Renaissance authors:

• Andrea Alciato
• Ludovico Ariosto
• Leonardo Bruni
• Giovanni Boccaccio
• Erasmus
• Michel de Montaigne
• Petrarch, Francesco Petrarca
• Baldassare Castiglione
• Coluccio Salutati
• Francois Rabelais
• William Shakespeare
• Thomas More

Important Renaissance artists:

• Fra Angelico
• Giotto di Bondone
• Hieronymus Bosch
• Pieter Brueghel the Elder
• Pieter Brueghel the Younger
• Jan Brueghel the Elder
• Jan Brueghel the Younger
• Filippo Brunelleschi
• Donatello
• Sandro Botticelli
• Albrecht Dürer
• Michelangelo
• Raphael, Raffaello Sanzio
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Jan van Eyck
• Rogier van der Weyden

Important Renaissance scientists:

• Tycho Brahe
• Copernicus
• Johannes Kepler
• Paracelsus

Important Renaissance philosophers:

• Nicholas of Cusa[?]
• Marsilio Ficino
• Niccolo Machiavelli
• Francesco Guicciardini[?]

Important Renaissance composers:

• Josquin Des Prez
• Johann Fux[?]

Important Renaissance dancemasters:

• Domenico da Piacenza[?]
• Fabritio Caroso
• Thoinot Arbeau

Common misspelling and questions (FAQ)

he-renaissance  te-renaissance  th-renaissance  therenaissance  the-enaissance  the-rnaissance  the-reaissance  the-renissance  the-renassance  the-renaisance  the-renaisance  the-renaissnce  the-renaissace  the-renaissane  the-renaissanc  hte-renaissance  teh-renaissance  th-erenaissance  ther-enaissance  the-ernaissance  the-rneaissance  the-reanissance  the-reniassance  the-renasisance  the-renaissance  the-renaisasnce  the-renaissnace  the-renaissacne  the-renaissanec  the-renaissanc  tthe-renaissance  thhe-renaissance  thee-renaissance  the--renaissance  the-rrenaissance  the-reenaissance  the-rennaissance  the-renaaissance  the-renaiissance  the-renaisssance  the-renaisssance  the-renaissaance  the-renaissannce  the-renaissancce  the-renaissancee  5he-renaissance  rhe-renaissance  fhe-renaissance  6he-renaissance  ghe-renaissance  6he-renaissance  yhe-renaissance  ghe-renaissance  tye-renaissance  tge-renaissance  tbe-renaissance  tue-renaissance  tne-renaissance  tue-renaissance  tje-renaissance  tne-renaissance  th3-renaissance  thw-renaissance  ths-renaissance  th4-renaissance  thd-renaissance  th4-renaissance  thr-renaissance  thd-renaissance  the0renaissance  theprenaissance  the[renaissance  the-4enaissance  the-eenaissance  the-denaissance  the-5enaissance  the-fenaissance  the-5enaissance  the-tenaissance  the-fenaissance  the-r3naissance  the-rwnaissance  the-rsnaissance  the-r4naissance  the-rdnaissance  the-r4naissance  the-rrnaissance  the-rdnaissance  the-rehaissance  the-rebaissance  the-rejaissance  the-rejaissance  the-remaissance  the-renqissance  the-renwissance  the-renzissance  the-renwissance  the-rensissance  the-renzissance  the-rena8ssance  the-renaussance  the-renajssance  the-rena9ssance  the-renakssance  the-rena9ssance  the-renaossance  the-renakssance  the-renaiwsance  the-renaiasance  the-renaizsance  the-renaiesance  the-renaixsance  the-renaiesance  the-renaidsance  the-renaixsance  the-renaiswance  the-renaisaance  the-renaiszance  the-renaiseance  the-renaisxance  the-renaiseance  the-renaisdance  the-renaisxance  the-renaissqnce  the-renaisswnce  the-renaissznce  the-renaisswnce  the-renaisssnce  the-renaissznce  the-renaissahce  the-renaissabce  the-renaissajce  the-renaissajce  the-renaissamce  the-renaissande  the-renaissanxe  the-renaissanfe  the-renaissanfe  the-renaissanve  the-renaissanc3  the-renaissancw  the-renaissancs  the-renaissanc4  the-renaissancd  the-renaissanc4  the-renaissancr  the-renaissancd  the-renayssance  the-renaisance  yhe-renaissance  tyhe-renaissance  the-renaissances 


The must love something. Human nature is.