How can the Renaissance be used as a springboard for defining modernity
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The term Renaissance is synonymous with a golden age. Through the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, Europe experienced a Renaissance age because of creative art and literature, scientific innovations, and new political and sociological ideologies.
The Carolingian Renaissance is important for the efforts to preserve classical texts and other important documents. It is also notable for the birth of the legible minuscule script that was used for copying manuscripts.
Between the time 1350 and 1550 began the Italian renaissance,it was a period of European history that began in Italy and spread to the rest of Europe.
Greek and Roman mythology influenced renaissance, baroque and neoclassical sculpture and renaissance and baroque painting, which sometimes used classical mythology themes as their subjects. European literature also sometimes took up themes from classical mythology.
Cosimo de Medici was a ruler of Florence and founder of Medici dynasty. His reign fell during the renaissance period and he is known for being a great supporter of learning, arts and architecture. He used his wealth to promote skilled professionals in these fields which made Florence a prominent hub of intellectual and artistic activity in renaissance period.