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By Charles G. Nauert

Few sessions have given civilization this kind of powerful impulse because the Renaissance, which begun in Italy after which unfold to the remainder of Europe. in the course of its short epoch, so much vigorously from the fourteen to the 16th centuries, Europe reached again to historical Greece and Rome, and driven forward in different fields: paintings, structure, literature, philosophy, banking, trade, faith, politics, and battle. this period is inundated with recognized names (Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Petrarch, Machiavelli, Cervantes, and Shakespeare), and the history it left can hardly ever be overestimated.

The A to Z of the Renaissance offers info on those fields via its chronology, which lines occasions from 1250 to 1648, and its creation delineating the underlying good points of the interval. even if, it's the dictionary part, with 1000's of cross-referenced entries on well-known individuals (from Adrian to Zwingli), key destinations, assisting political and social associations, wars, non secular reformations, achievements, and screw ups, that is the center of this publication. additional learn is facilitated through the bibliography.

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