The Renaissance is one of the most well-known and important events in human history.  Meaning rebirth the time period was centered around the innovation of culture, learning and the arts. Taking place between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.   While the era produced several well-known scientists and thinkers such as Michaelangelo, Donatello, and Da Vinci to name a few. The were a bit conceited as they considered the past 1000 years up to that point the dark ages, due to the people in their eyes being uncivilized and barbaric.  While the original ended in 1500, the effect it had never truly stopped as the patterns spread throughout Itay and eventually most of Europe.

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Italy did not face severe setbacks or traumas like the hundred years war in France and was affected as much as everyone else by the Black Death.   A benefit Italy had was the Popes lack of political power, which allowed it to operate without much interference from the church.  On the other hand, Italian noble families would interfere with Papal elections if it suited their interests.  The rest of Europe at the could not or did not want trouble with Italy Italian cities were larger and closer together that most   had great trade relations and were on good terms with each other. This would also be great in an invasion as  they would be more likely to send out armies to push back invaders

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Though the western roman empire had fallen, the Italian cities were doing fine. Due to feudalism not having a strong hold in the cities and the fact that the nobles and merchants did not want to answer to lords, especially if they were outside the city, the governing bodies of said cities were the nobles and merchant, they were Known as Popoli Grossi, aka the Fat people.  The culture of the nobility was ripe with backstabbing, drama and gossip. In order to hold power and authority social standing was almost everything except for honor. To them and the Italian families honor was everything and if it was besmirched, they would spare no expense on making regaining it. Tere was no real police, the nobles had paid guards, and all acts of vengeance was done through mercenaries. 

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The printing press was an invention that revolutionized information storing and spreading capabilities. The ability to mass produce pages without back breaking labor was something for the ages as what would take months could now only take days. It also did phenomenal work for play writes. The scripts could be easily made by  moving the letter  keys around, and they could easily be mass produced as long as you had paper. The pamphlets for the plays could be given to anyone within reason and everyone would tell their associates as everyone loved drama.  

Citation: Ardolino, Frank. "Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Page, Metaphoric Books." Renaissance Quarterly 51, no. 3 (1998): 1058+. Gale In Context: World History (accessed December 7, 2024). https://link-gale-com.eznvcc.vccs.edu/apps/doc/A21240772/WHIC?u=viva2_nvcc&sid=bookmark-WHIC&xid=c6ce39e6. 

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