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Rinascimento

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English meaning: Renaissance (Italian cultural rebirth)

Italian Definition

(Italiano)

La rinascita culturale, artistica e intellettuale (XIV–XVII sec.) che iniziò nelle città-stato italiane e trasformò l'Europa.

English Definition

The cultural, artistic, and intellectual rebirth (14th–17th centuries) that began in Italian city-states (Florence, Venice, Rome) and transformed Europe. The Renaissance revived classical Greek and Roman learning, placed human reason and individualism at the center of thought (humanism), and produced extraordinary achievements in art (Leonardo, Michelangelo), science (Galileo), literature (Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio), and architecture.

Example

Il Rinascimento italiano ha trasformato la civiltà europea e posto le basi della modernità.

In English: The Italian Renaissance transformed European civilization and laid the foundations of modernity.

Synonyms

  • umanesimo
  • rinascita culturale

Antonyms / Opposites

  • Medioevo
  • oscurantismo

Literary Heritage

Canto l'arme pietose e 'l capitano che 'l gran sepolcro liberò di Cristo.

I sing the pious arms and the captain who freed the great sepulchre of Christ.

Torquato Tasso · Poet · Late 16th century

Gerusalemme Liberata

Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata, 1581), Canto I, stanza 1, lines 1–2

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