Renaissance definition. The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe from roughly the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeenth centuries, based on the rediscovery of the literature of Greece and Rome. ... Renaissance means “rebirth” or “reawakening.”
Because Italy was the center of the trade and because of that the trade brought in new ideas and religion to Italy. The new and old ideas were thought through and cretin people looked at life differently and they focused on nature, ideas, and human achievements instead of all religion. But the churches did not want the people's new ideas to interfere with the culture.