The Renaissance

Duration: 11 min

Year Published: 1950

Creator: Coronet Films

Color: Color

Credits: David A. Smart (producer); Wendell W. Wright

Description: Describes the outstanding characteristics of the Renaissance, using examples in Italy. Explains the social role and subsequent decline in power of the Church and the nobles in the thirteenth century, the rise of Florentine trade and culture, and their spread to other countries. Pictures the Medicis, Petrarch, Galileo, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci as contributors to the Renaissance.

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