Good Question
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/links/ren.html
It is almost impossible to choose just one important thing about the rennaissance. This time came just following the Black Plague. Europe was renewed because population was greatly reduced and the citied purified. This was a time of plenty with the food and money plentiful.
In Italy great artists such as Michelangelo and Bernini were elevating art to new levels. Great books were written. DaVinci continued awing every peron about. In Britain Henry 8 and Elizabeth 1 were exploring the world by ship.
http://www.mrdowling.com/704-art.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/medici
I suppose the expansion of the arts was one of the biggest events.
Religion became even more controlling as the Borgias and Medicis consolidated the power of the Papacy.
Hey wasn't pizza invented in that century? LOL Or even better, lasagna.
2007-03-21 13:33:24
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answered by Noor al Haqiqa 6
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since there were advances in every field, it would be impossible to state one absolutely most important event. Whatever would be picked would be totally subjective.
I would say, for instance, it was the Christian Humanists who reintroduced Plato, Aristotle, the Greek Myths and a myriad of other things into Western Europe. Of course the printing press in 1451 assisted greatly, but Christian Humanism predated the printing press by some time.
2007-03-22 08:30:30
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answered by Polyhistor 7
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oh, without a doubt, the invention of the printing press.
2007-03-21 20:40:28
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answered by Monc 6
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Printing press
Around 1439, Gutenberg was involved in a misadventure making mirrors for pilgrims to Aachen, and when the question of repaying the money came up, Gutenberg is said to have promised to share a "secret". It has been widely speculated that this secret may have been the idea of printing with movable type. Legend has it that the idea came to him "like a ray of light"[6].
At least up to 1444, he lived in Strasbourg, most likely in the St. Arbogust suburb. It is not clear what work he was engaged in, or whether some early trials with printing from movable type may have been conducted there. After this, there is a gap of four years in the record. In 1448, he was back in Mainz, where he took out a loan from his brother-in-law Arnold Gelthus, presumably for a printing press.
By 1450, the press was most likely in operation, and a German poem had been printed, possibly the first item to be printed there. Gutenberg was able to convince the wealthy moneylender Johann Fust for a loan of 800 guilders. Peter Schoeffer, who became Fust's son-in-law, also joined the enterprise. Shoeffer had worked as a scribe in Paris and designed some of the first typefaces.
Gutenberg's workshop was set up at Hof Humbrecht, a property belonging to a distant relative. It is not clear when Gutenberg conceived the Bible project, but for this he borrowed another 800 guilders from Fust, and work commenced in 1452. At the same time, the press was also printing other, more lucrative texts (possibly Latin grammars). There is also some speculation that there may have been two presses, one for the pedestrian texts, and one for the Bible. One of the profitmaking enterprises of the new press was the printing of thousands of indulgences for the church, documented from 1454–55.
In 1455 Gutenberg published his 42-line Bible, commonly known as the Gutenberg Bible. About 180 were printed, most on paper and some on vellum.of 2003, the number of known extant Gutenberg 42-line Bibles includes eleven complete copies on vellum, one copy of the New Testament only on vellum, and 48 substantially complete integral copies on paper, with another divided copy on paper. The country with the most copies is Germany, which has twelve. Four cities have two copies: Paris, Moscow, Mainz and Vatican City; London has three copies plus the illuminated Bagford Fragment; New York has four copies.
Austria (1)
Ãsterreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna
Belgium (1)
Bibliothèque universitaire in Mons (a second copy at Leuven University was destroyed)
Binding of an unknown copyDenmark (1)
Kongelige Bibliotek in Copenhagen
France (3)
Bibliothèque nationale in Paris (one of three "perfect vellum" copies)
Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris
Bibliothèque Municipale in Saint-Omer
Germany (12)
Gutenberg Museum in Mainz (2 copies)
Landesbibliothek in Fulda
Universitätsbibliothek in Leipzig
Niedersächsische Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek in Göttingen
Staatsbibliothek in Berlin
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich
Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek in Frankfurt-am-Main
Hofbibliothek in Aschaffenburg
Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart
Stadtbibliothek in Trier
Landesbibliothek in Kassel
Vatican City (2)
Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana (one vellum copy, one on paper)
First page of the first volume of the Gutenberg Bible: The Epistle of St. JeromeJapan (1)
Keio University Library in Tokyo
Poland (1)
Biblioteka Seminarium Duchownego in Pelpin
Portugal (1)
Portuguese National Library in Lisbon
Russia (2)
Russian State Library in Moscow
Lomonosov University Library in Moscow
Spain (2)
Biblioteca Universitaria y Provincial in Seville
Biblioteca Pública Provincial in Burgos
Another Gutenberg BibleSwitzerland (1)
Bibliotheca Bodmeriana in Cologny
United Kingdom (9)
British Library in London (one of three "perfect vellum" copies, one paper copy and the Bagford Fragment)
Lambeth Palace Library in London (decorated in England)
Bodleian Library in Oxford
University Library in Cambridge
Eton College Library in Eton
John Rylands Library in Manchester
National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh
United States of America (10)
Library of Congress in Washington, DC (one of three "perfect vellum" copies)
New York Public Library in New York City
Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City (one copy on vellum, 2 copies on paper)
Widener Library at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut
The Scheide Library at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey
Lilly Library at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana (incomplete NT only)
Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois (incomplete OT only)
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas
Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California
2007-03-21 20:56:17
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answered by jewle8417 5
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