The Renaissance was a cultural revolution that radically changed the way of seeing the universe by placing the human being at its center. Through perspective in art, the discovery of the laws of nature, humanism, the new role of women alongside men, the parameters of life were completely redefined. The modern era also derives largely from that extraordinary period.
- Dante Alighieri: the Divine Comedy, 1321
- Giotto: Stories of St. Francis, 1325
- Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron, 1353
- Petrarch: Canzoniere, 1374
- Donatello: the David, 1440
- Michelangelo: Sistine Chapel frescoes, 1483 and the David, 1501-1504
- Sandro Botticelli: the Birth of Venus, 1485
- Leonardo da Vinci: Monna Lisa, 1506
- Raphael: the School of Athens, 1509
- Ludovico Ariosto: Orlando furioso, 1516 furiosoatlas.com
- Niccolò Machiavelli: the Prince, 1532
- François Rabelais: Pantagruel and Gargantua, 1532-1534
- Copernicus: On the revolution of heavenly spheres, 1543
- Torquato Tasso: Jerusalem Delivered, 1581
- William Shakespeare: Hamlet, 1599
- Caravaggio: the Sacrifice of Isaac, 1603
- Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote, 1605-1615
- Johannes Kepler: the 3 laws of planetary motion, 1609-1619
- Galileo Galilei: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, 1632
