The Rise of the Republic and the Birth of Modernity in Italy

By renaissance, i mean the cultural movement that ushers modernity in. Florence is a region in italy and represents the rise of the republic. The second event for this shift into modernity is represented by a gan named petrarch. Petrarch lived in the 13 hundreds and is often credited with being the spark of the renaissance. And then we have a guy named erasmus, and in the rumblings of religious reform.