So, what you are probably wondering right now is what exactly does the Renaissance mean? Well that is a very good question. The renaissance my friend is an era where learning was reborn, after it wasn't being given much attention, and great minds and geniuses emerged. All the peeps used to choose their friends depending on what class they were. So if you were really rich then you'd hang out with all the rich dudes. While if you were poor, and a merchant you'd hang out with the poor merchants. However, during the renaissance, it was knowledge and how smart you were that defined where you were in society. Michelangelo Buonarroti (aka Mickey) and Leonardo da Vinci (aka L da V). Throughout the renaissance, people wanted to know more about arts, and science, and wanted to learn more and more, and get educated.
The big thing about the Renaissance was all the people wanted more and more information, and everyone wanted to learn more.
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Español: Fresco en la Capilla Sixtina.Everything we have today, and learned today, we would not have known about had it not been for the renaissance. The mathematics, the sciences people discovered is like the building stone on which we have progressed and continued on. We have stuff like paintings from back then, still now, which we use and study. My homie Shakespeare for example, wrote so many good plays, that enriched my hometown England. As for Italy, it was being enriched by the breakthrough in arts, especially painting and sculptures. Some famous painters and sculpturers were Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael. Humanists are people that like do to arts, and stuff like that. One well known humanist from the renaissance is Petrarch. Vernia was a famous scientist that gave a lot to the Europeans during the renaissance. So as you can...