Start of The Renaissance in Italy During the 15th Century

Start of The Renaissance in Italy During the 15th Century

The word Renaissance means rebirth. It was a period when people

rediscoverd learning and looking back to the classical civilizations

of Rome and Greece for their inspiration. It was an exciting time of

new inventions and amazing discoveries, magnificent buildings and

beutiful art. My aim in this essay, is to explain why the Renaissance

started in Italy during the 15 century. In this essay I will talk

about; The growing wealth of Italy, divided Italy, the classical

period, humanists, trade and exploration.

The main reasons of why the Renaissance started in Italy during the

15th century were the growing wealth of italy because the history and

art of the Greeks influenced the Italiens, and the classical period

because the Italiens started to look at the art work from the Greeks

and Romans and they started to use art in a simular way. The Greeks

created major works of art, including dramaticc buildings and

sculptures, and had a great deal of influence on the Roman Empire

which took over from Greek civilisation. The Romans built impressive

public buildings all over Europe, like the Colosseum in Rome. Italiens

started to look around them and take interest and pride in what had

survived from the time of the centre of the Roman Empire. Their ideas

on art and architecture were influenced by art and architecture from

the classical period. Italian scholars began to take an interest in

these original manuscripts and learnt Greek from the Greek scholars.

Their interest was so great that they started to search for other

ancient manuscripts. These works opened up whole new areas of thought

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... poor maps and

navigation instruments and so rarely sailed out of sight of land. By

the 14th century there were new navigation instruments to work out

speed and distance. Sailors used compasses to tell which way they were

sailing. Astrolobe and cross staff were also invented to help sailors

navigate. Maps steadily improved. The Spanish and Portuguese were the

best mapmakers because they travelled the furthest afield.

I think that the main factors which spread the Renaissance were

divided Italy and the growing wealth of Italy because the history and

art of the Greeks and Romans influenced the Italiens, the classical

period because the Italiens started to look at the art and

architecture from the Greeks and Romans and they started to use art in

a simular way and trade because people began to want more luxury

goods.