Rinascimento in Italian. A movement of cultural and intellectual innovation in Europe that spanned from the 14th to the 16th century. 16th-century Western historians held that literature and art were once highly prosperous in Greek and Roman times, but decayed and fell into oblivion in the medieval “Dark Ages”, and it was not until the 14th century that it achieved a “rebirth”, a “revival”. It was both an imitation of Greco-Roman culture and art and a revival of the capacity for observing and emulating the nature, hence the name “Renaissance”. . .
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