[[Image:Pieta.jpg|thumb|[[Michelangelo]], The Pieta.]]
[[Image:Pieta.jpg|thumb|[[Michelangelo]], The Pieta.]]
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'''Renaissance''' is a French word for "rebirth". Merriam-Webster <ref>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Renaissance Renaissance]</ref> describes the Renaissance as "the transitional movement in Europe between [[medieval]] and modern times beginning in the fourteenth century in Italy, lasting into the seventeenth century," which included "a flowering of the arts and [[literature]]" and "the beginnings of modern [[science]]".
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'''Renaissance''' is a French word for "rebirth". Merriam-Webster <ref>[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Renaissance Renaissance]</ref> describes the Renaissance as "the transitional movement in Europe between [[medieval]] and modern times beginning in the fourteenth century in Italy, lasting into the seventeenth century," which included "a flowering of the arts and [[literature]]" and "the beginnings of modern [[science]]".
For a more detailed description, see [[The Renaissance]].
For a more detailed description, see [[The Renaissance]].