THE RENAISSANCE: HOW 15TH CENTURY ITALY INVENTED THE MODERN WORLD
Episode 2 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires
In this History episode we focus on the Renaissance — the shift in how Western civilization understood what a human being could be and do, and the specific conditions in Florence that made it possible: the Medici banking dynasty, the recovery of Greek texts after the fall of Constantinople, and the psychological aftermath of the Black Death.
This episode covers Brunelleschi's discovery of linear perspective, Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, Machiavelli's Prince, the Northern Renaissance, and the Gutenberg…
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