Few periods have given civilization such a strong impulse as the
Renaissance, which started in Italy and then spread to the rest of
Europe. During its brief epoch, most vigorously from the fourteen
to the sixteenth centuries, Europe reached back to Ancient Greece
and Rome, and pushed ahead in numerous fields: art, architecture,
literature, philosophy, banking, commerce, religion, politics, and
warfare. This era is inundated with famous names (Da Vinci,
Michelangelo, Raphael, Petrarch, Machiavelli, Cervantes, and
Shakespeare), and the heritage it left can hardly be overestimated.
The A to Z of the Renaissance provides information on these fields
through its chronology, which traces events from 1250 to 1648, and
its introduction delineating the underlying features of the period.
However, it is the dictionary section, with hundreds of
cross-referenced entries on famous persons (from Adrian to
Zwingli), key locations, supporting political and social
institutions, wars, religious reformations, achievements, and
failures, which is the heart of this book. Further research is
facilitated by the bibliography.
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