Chapter seven simply named The Renaissance covers Florence, Rome, and Venice. The word Renaissance itself means rebirth which is what this period is all about. The chapter traces the rise of the humanist Renaissance city-state as a center of culture in Italy in the fifteenth century. In the year 1296 the construction of the Duomo(known as the Florence cathedral)This cathedral was planned as the most beautiful and grandest in all of Tuscany. One invention to come out this period was the creation of scientific perspective. Brunelleschi was the man who first mastered the art of scientific perspective in the first decade of the fifteenth centaury. He turned to the ancient Greeks and Romans to reinvent the idea. His investigation of optics in Arab
