The Renaissance

The literal meaning of the word Renaissance is "resurrection". This way of thinking is absolutely applicable to the music of this era. The Renaissance followed the Middle Ages from 1400 to 1600. The central feature is to reinstate humanism, to observe our world, to emphasize the importance of human beings, their nature and their position in the universe. One of the main purposes of Humanist's view is to educate students to become "ideal gentlemen" or "universal people" reminiscent of Greek and Roman ideals.

Other cultural regenerations such as Harlem Renaissance and San Francisco Renaissance are also known as "Renaissance". In this article, I will not consider Renaissance, further resurrection focusing on the transition from the Middle Ages to the present age. The important thing is that the Italian Renaissance of the 15th century has spread to other parts of Europe and the reunion of Western and classical times, the absorption of knowledge from Arabic, especially the absorption of mathematics, the revival of experimentalism, It represents importance. (For example humanism), the explosive growth of knowledge transfer brought about by the printing, and the creation of new skills in art, poetry and architecture, fundamentally changed style and content. Art and Letters

With the arrival of the Italian Renaissance, the ruler and the king learned to tax the Italian Renaissance citizens. Trade technology grew among the different cities of the Italian Renaissance. Many people today believe that the Renaissance happened first in Italy as Italy is perfectly located between Western Europe and the east coast of the Mediterranean. The Italian Renaissance society must truly support artists and elaborate building projects, many Italian city states are industrial powers such as textiles produced in Florence, Milan uses weapons for weapons manufacture was doing. The two city states of Italy Venice and Genoa are very wealthy for trading. However, some people have studied that the city state "Venice" is one of the wealthiest countries in Italy. Venetian is a professional sailor seaman, shipbuilder and businessman