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Question: When did the Renaissance start!? When did it end!?
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The Renaissance includes several different disciplines!. So you could say the Renaissance of Art, or Literature, of Science!.

According to Marie Boas in her book The Scientific Renaissance - she dates this Renaissance from 1450 - 1630Www@QuestionHome@Com

The word is French for 'rebirth'!. Historians first use it (from about 1840) for the period from the 14th to the 16th century, implying a rediscovery of rational civilization (exemplified by Greece and Rome) after the medieval centuries - seen as superstitious and artistically primitive!. The term 'Middle Ages', also coined by historians, makes the same point in a different way - defining the medieval period merely as the gap between classical and modern civilization!.
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The Renaissance (French for "rebirth"; Italian: Rinascimento), was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th through the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

it started in medieval Italy around 1400 and ended around 1600Www@QuestionHome@Com