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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).
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==Origins of the term==
"Renaissance" is a [[France|French]] word coined by French historian [[Jules Michelet]] and expanded upon by [[Switzerland|Swiss]] historian [[Jacob Burckhardt]] in the [[19th century]] 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 [[civilization]]s of [[Hellenic civilization|Greece]] and [[Roman Empire|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, many argue, patently false. The entire period is now more often replaced by the term "Early Modern" in the practice of historians. See [[periodization]].
Renaissance can refer to other periods of cultural rebirth; as in the [[Harlem Renaissance]].
==Overview==
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 language|Greek]] and [[Latin]] texts which had disappeared from the West in the latter years of the [[Roman Empire]]. These texts were largely recovered from Greek scholars in the [[Byzantine Empire]] and in careful inspections of European [[monastery|monasteries]]. Towards the end of the Renaissance, scientists increasingly began to reject [[Greek language|Greek]] (and [[Bible|biblical]]) sources in favor of new discoveries. Theologians continued to focus on the Greek, as well as on the relatively new study of [[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'' ([[Humanism]]).
Some historians mark the end of the Renaissance as [[May 6]], [[1527]], when [[Spain|Spanish]] and [[Germany|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 d'Este]]
**[[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 of Rotterdam | Erasmus]]
* [[Jan Kochanowski]]
* [[Michel de Montaigne ]]
* [[Petrarch]], Francesco Petrarca
* [[Baldassare Castiglione]]
* [[Coluccio Salutati]]
* [[François Rabelais]]
* [[William Shakespeare]]
* [[Thomas More]]
==Important Renaissance artists==
* [[Leon Battista Alberti]]
* [[Fra Angelico]]
* [[Giotto di Bondone]]
* [[Hieronymus Bosch]]
* [[Sandro Botticelli]]
* [[Donato Bramante]]
* [[Pieter Brueghel the Elder]]
* [[Pieter Brueghel the Younger]]
* [[Jan Brueghel the Elder]]
* [[Jan Brueghel the Younger]]
* [[Filippo Brunelleschi]]
* [[Donatello]]
* [[Albrecht Durer|Albrecht Dürer]]
* [[Lorenzo Ghiberti]]
* [[Michelangelo Buonarotti|Michelangelo]]
* [[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], Raffaello Sanzio
* [[Leonardo da Vinci]]
* [[Jan van Eyck]]
* [[Rogier van der Weyden]]
'''See also:''' [[Early Renaissance paintings]], [[Renaissance Classicism]], [[European art history]]
==Important Renaissance scientists==
* [[Tycho Brahe]]
* [[Copernicus]]
* [[Johannes Kepler]]
* [[Paracelsus]]
==Important Renaissance philosophers==
* [[Nicholas of Cusa]]
* [[Marsilio Ficino]]
* [[Niccolo Machiavelli]]
* [[Francesco Guicciardini]]
==Important [[Renaissance Music|Renaissance composers]]==
* [[Josquin Des Prez]]
* [[Guillaume Dufay]]
* [[Giovanni Gabrieli]]
* [[Orlandus Lassus]] (also known as Orlando di Lasso)
* [[Johannes Ockeghem]]
* [[Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina]]
* [[Thomas Tallis]]
* [[Tomas Luis de Victoria]]
==Important [[Renaissance Dance|Renaissance dancemasters]]==
* [[Domenico da Piacenza]]
* [[Fabritio Caroso]]
* [[Thoinot Arbeau]]
==Renaissance as architecture style==
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Masterpieces of European Renaissance are situated, for example, in [[Dresden]], Germany.
==External links==
*Wiki: [http://www.sca.org.au/cunnan/ Cunnan: A Wiki collecting information for re-enactors of the Middle Ages and Renaissance with a heavy slant towards members of the SCA]
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