Italian Renaissance And The Enlightenment

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Renaissance means “rebirth.” Jacob Burkhardt created the concept of it in his book The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. He portrayed Italy as the birthplace of the modern world in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Renaissance Italy was an urban society. By the mid-fourteenth century, it was mostly a land of independent cities that dominated the country districts around them. The interest in Greek and Roman culture affected activities as diverse as politics and art as well as ways that they viewed humans. The achievements of the Italian Renaissance included a large movement and many intellectual and artistic accomplishments. While making the society, there was an economic recovery, expansion of trade, recovery of old and new