renaissance art involved masaccio brunelleschi ghiberti piero della francesca donatello and michelozzo and florence
on land decades of fighting saw florence milan and venice emerge as the dominant players and these three powers finally set aside their differences and agreed to the peace of lodi in 1454 which saw relative calm brought to the region for the first time in centuries
accounts of protorenaissance literature usually begin with the three great italian writers of the 14th century dante alighieri divine comedy petrarch canzoniere and boccaccio decameron