<P> In the 15th century , the Renaissance spread rapidly from its birthplace in Florence to the rest of Italy and soon to the rest of Europe . The invention of the printing press by German printer Johannes Gutenberg allowed the rapid transmission of these new ideas . As it spread , its ideas diversified and changed , being adapted to local culture . In the 20th century , scholars began to break the Renaissance into regional and national movements . </P>
renaissance culture spread throughout europe by the late sixteenth century due to
The invention of the printing press by German printer Johannes Gutenberg