The Renaissance began in Northern Italy and then spread through Europe. Italian cities such as Naples, Genoa, and Venice became centers of trade between Europe and the Middle East. As these cities traded goods, they also bgan trading ideas as well. Thus, the ideas of the Renaissance began to spread. 

      The original ideas of this movement was characterized  by a revival of interest in classical literature and classical ideals. Thee founders of this period stressed a revolt against the intellectual sterility of the then-modern medieval spirit, and especially against "scholasticism" that marked it.

     The second period of the Renaissance was marked by a continued zeal for classical study, and by the development of a broad learning and the new view of the intellectual life.

 Overall, its influence was felt in literature, philosophy, art, politics, science, religion, and other aspects of life as well. Renaissance scholars employed the humanist method in study, and searched for realism and human emotion in art.