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Renaissance
- Northern RenaissanceThe Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance of Europe north of the Alps. It arrived later than the Italian Renaissance, and in most respects it only began in the last years of the 15th century. The mountains were more than a line on a…
- Renaissance artRenaissance art began with a bronze door contest in Florence in 1401.
- RenaissanceFlorence lost nearly half its people to plague in 1348. Yet the Renaissance began there soon after.
- Renaissance humanismIn 1417, Poggio Bracciolini found a copy of Lucretius's De rerum natura, lost for centuries.
- Greek scholars in the RenaissanceBy 1500, about five thousand Greek speakers lived in Venice alone. They were teachers, scribes and painters.
- Science in the RenaissanceCopernicus moved the Earth from the center to eliminate one device in Ptolemy's astronomy.
- English RenaissanceBy the 1550s, Italy was already moving past the Renaissance into Mannerism and the Baroque. England was only starting to feel the pull of the older style. The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England, and it grew…
- Renaissance of the 12th centuryEurope regained lost Greek science in the 12th century through Muslim Spain and Southern Italy.
- Renaissance technologyGutenberg's press could turn out roughly 3,600 pages in a single workday. The German goldsmith adapted the screw press.
- Italian RenaissanceLorenzo the Magnificent survived an assassination attempt at Easter mass in 1478, but his brother Giuliano did not.
- Sack of Rome (1527)Unpaid soldiers stormed Rome in 1527 against their Emperor's wishes. Charles V wanted only to pressure the Pope.
- PolymathOne study found Nobel-winning scientists were 25 times likelier to sing, dance, or act than average ones.