An Idiots Guide to the Renaissance

Imagine Steve Jobs, Socrates, Henry Ford, Elvis Presley, The Easter Bunny and Albert Einstein all lived in the same town, graduated from same High School - and did their greatest work at the same time! Thats what the Italian Renaissance in Florence was like.

Right around the same time, in the same location, artist like DiVinci and Michelangelo turned the world from dark to light, from superstition to science, and from black and white to vivid color.