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Renaissance was also the name of a 1970s progressive rock group. This entry is about the Renaissance.



The following article discusses the Renaissance in its most traditional form, as a cultural and scientific rebirth that began in 14th c. Italy, where one of its main centers was Florence, and then spread throughout Europe. In science, theology, literature and art, the Renaissance began with a rediscovery of and focus on older Greek texts which had disappeared from the West in the latter years of the Roman Empire. Towards the end of the Renaissance, scientists increasingly began to reject Greek (and biblical) sources in favor of new discoveries. Theologians continued to focus on the Greek, as well as on the relatively new study Hebrew and Aramaic. The second half of the Renaissance is also the period of the Reformation.

Rinascimento is also considered as a sort of natural evolution of Italian Umanesimo[?].

Some historians mark the end of the Renaissance as May 6, 1527, when Spanish and German troops sacked Rome. In music history the end date is usually given as 1600, or even 1620.

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