<P> The Italian Renaissance ( Italian : Rinascimento ( rinaʃʃiˈmento ) ) was the earliest manifestation of the general European Renaissance , a period of great cultural change and achievement that began in Italy during the 14th century ( Trecento ) and lasted until the 17th century ( Seicento ) , marking the transition between Medieval and Modern Europe . The French word renaissance ( Rinascimento in Italian ) means `` Rebirth '' and defines the period as one of renewed interest in the culture of classical antiquity after the centuries labeled the Dark Ages by Renaissance humanists , as well as an era of economic revival after the Black Death . The Renaissance author Giorgio Vasari used the term `` Rinascita '' in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters , Sculptors , and Architects but the concept became widespread only in the 19th century , after the works of scholars such as Jules Michelet and Jacob Burckhardt . </P>
<P> The Italian Renaissance ( Italian : Rinascimento ( rinaʃʃiˈmento ) ) was the earliest manifestation of the general European Renaissance , a period of great cultural change and achievement that began in Italy during the 14th century ( Trecento ) and lasted until the 17th century ( Seicento ) , marking the transition between Medieval and Modern Europe . The French word renaissance ( Rinascimento in Italian ) means `` Rebirth '' and defines the period as one of renewed interest in the culture of classical antiquity after the centuries labeled the Dark Ages by Renaissance humanists , as well as an era of economic revival after the Black Death . The Renaissance author Giorgio Vasari used the term `` Rinascita '' in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters , Sculptors , and Architects but the concept became widespread only in the 19th century , after the works of scholars such as Jules Michelet and Jacob Burckhardt . </P>
the renaissance was a cultural movement in europe that revitalized the learning of
the renaissance was a cultural movement in europe that revitalized the learning of
the culture of classical antiquity
the culture of classical antiquity