Use this History and Western Heritage video entitled The Late Middle Ages: Renaissance and Discovery to study how Italy during the late Middle Ages that the true outlines of Renaissance life and culture could be seen. Learn how the Italian city-states were the crossroads of Mediterranean trade and enjoyed a degree of urban sophistication unmatched anywhere else in Europe, and how Florence, Milan, Venice, Rome, and Naples were major centers of Renaissance life and Humanism was the key to Renaissance culture.
Learn about The Renaissance and the time of Discovery.