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(contracted; show full)e Renaissance popes. The Italian Renaissance peaked in the late 15th century as foreign invasions plunged the region into turmoil. The Renaissance ideals first spread from Florence to the neighbouring states of Tuscany such as [[Siena]] and [[Lucca]]. Tuscan architecture and painting soon became a model for all the city-states of northern and central Italy, as the Tuscan variety of Italian language came to predominate throughout the region, especially in literature.

=== Literaturo, filozofio e cienco ===

Accounts ofNaraci di [[Renaisesanceo literatureo]] usually begin withmaxim-multa-kaze komencas kun [[Petrarch]] (bestmaxim bona konown for the cita por l'elegantlye polished vernacularita lokala idiomo [[sonneto]] sequence of therio di ''[[Canzoniere]]'' and for the craze for book collecting that he initiated) and his friend and contemporarye por la frenezio por libro kolekto qua il inicis) e lua amiko e nuntempala [[Boccaccio]] (author of theo di [[Decameron]]). Famous vernacular poets of the 15th za lokala idiomo poeti di 15ma yarcenturyo incklude theas renaisesanceo epicka authors i L[[Luigi Pulci]] (''[[Morgante]]''), [[Matteo Maria Boiardo]] (''[[Orlando Innamorato]]''), ande [[Ludovico Ariosto]] (''[[Orlando Furioso]]'').

Renaissance scholars such as [[Niccolò de' Niccoli]] and [[Poggio Bracciolini]] scoured the libraries in search of works by such classical authors as [[Plato]], [[Cicero]] and [[Vitruvius]]. The works of [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] and [[Hellenistic civilization|Hellenistic]] writers (such as [[Plato]], [[Aristotle]], [[Euclid]], and [[Ptolemy]]) and [[Islamic science|Muslim scientists]] were imported into the Christian world, p(contracted; show full)

==External links==
* [http://www.miol.it/stagniweb/foto6.asp?File=mappe_va&Tipo=index&Righe=50&Col=4 Detailed Maps of the History of Italy]
* [http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_Italy:_Primary_Documents History of Italy: Primary Documents]
* [http://www.italyrevisited.org/ Italy Revisited (historical photo archives)]