By: Andrew Luher
What was the Renaissance? | When and where did the Renaissance begin?
Influences of the Renaissance | Art and Architecture | Music | Literature | Math and Science
How the Renaissance affects us. | Works Cited
Renaissance means rebirth in French and refers to the period followed Europe’s Middle Ages. The ideas of the Romans and the Greeks was being reborn. During this time, many new inventions were made like the printing press in the 1400s. Scholars and people began to become more interested in other subjects besides religion like history, art, literature, and public speaking. The Renaissance was a time of many new and creative inventions.
When and where did the Renaissance begin?
It began in Florence, Italy and spread through out Europe during the 1300s thought the 1600s.
The scholars, scientists, artists, and engineers were the most influential group during the Renaissance because they helped achieve advances in science and the arts. They worked to reopen trade routes between Europe and Asia, and they helped invent the printing press. They started making paper in the 1300s after the secret of papermaking spread from China to the Middle East.
Cosimo De Medici lived in the early 1400s. He lived in the town called Florence. Him and his family were the best bankers in Florence. Banking brought fame and fortune to Florence and the Medici family. They valued education because they needed their bankers to be able to read, write, and understand math. The money he achieved from banking was used to make Florence beautiful. He wanted Florence to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world, so he hired artists to decorate his palace. He also paid architects to redesign many of Florence’s cities
Gesualdo da Venosa was born on March 8, 1566 and died on September 8, 1613. He was the prince of Venosa and Count of Conza. He was born in Venosa and is most famous for his dramatically expressed madrigals. He was an Italian composer, lutenist, nobleman, and notorious for murderer later in the Renaissance
Dante Alighieri lived in the 1200s to the 1300s in Florence. His major accomplishment is the Divine Comedy which is a story about a man who travels through the afterlife and is wrote in Latin. The story is about when he is in the afterlife, he meets all kind of people as well as historical people. In his writing, he described the problems that he saw in Italian culture.
Scholars in the 1300s thought that math could help them understand the universe better, so they tried hard to make achievements in math. In the end, they were able to figure out the square root symbol, and the negative and positive numbers.
How the Renaissance affects us.
1. The secret of paper making was spread from China to the Middle East
2. The achievements in literature, architecture, music, math, and art led to us being able to write, build stronger buildings, make sacred music less popular and secular music more popular, and the technique of perspective to make paintings look more realistic.
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