Italian Renaissance

The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement from the 14th to the 16th century. The word renaissance (rinascimento in Italian) literally means "rebirth", and the era is best known for the renewed interest in the culture of classical antiquity after the period that Renaissance humanists labelled the Dark Ages. These changes, while significant, were concentrated in the elite, and for the vast majority of the population life was little changed from the Middle Ages.

Notes

• {{note|wool}} De Lamar Jensen, Renaissance Europe pg. 95
• {{note|capitalism}} Peter Burke. The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy pg. 232
• {{note|laws}} ibid pg. 93
• {{note|plague}} Jensen pg. 98
• {{note|LIA}} ibid pg. 97 see also Andrew B. Appleby's "Epidemics and Famine in the Little Ice Age." Journal of Interdisciplinary History. Vol. 10 No. 4.
• {{note|Lopez}} Robert Sabatino Lopez. "Hard Times and Investment in Culture."
• {{note|Baron}} Hans Baron. The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance
• {{note|war}} Jensen pg. 64
• {{note|Pazzi}} ibid pg. 80
• {{note|Rome}} ibid pg. 252
• {{note|late}} Burke. pg. 271
• {{note|peasants}} ibid pg. 256
• {{note|nochange}} Jensen. pg. 105
• {{note|refeudalization}} Burke. pg. 246
• {{note|artisans}} Jensen. pg. 104
• {{note|social}} Burke. pg. 255
• {{note|patronage}} Brian S. Pullan History of Early Renaissance Italy.
• {{note|Rome}} Burke. pg. 271