Renaissance
文艺复兴

The Renaissance meant the reintroduction into Western Europe of the full cultural heritage of Greece and Rome. The movement, first starting in Italy during the 14th century, changed the medieval Western Europe into a modern one. In Italy a group of artists, scientists, politicians, and writers created the most brilliant page of culture and science in Renaissance Europe. Never before in human history were men and women so eager to create and discover something new.
文艺复兴是指将古希腊罗马的整个文化遗产重新引入西欧。这场始于14世纪意大利的运动把中世纪的西欧转变为现代西欧。意大利涌现出许多艺术家、科学家、政治家和作家，为文艺复兴时期的欧洲创造了最灿烂辉煌的文化与科学。这种全人类积极努力发现新事物、创造新事物的热潮，是史无前例的。

The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th to the early 17th century. Like most of northern Europe, England saw little of these developments until more than a century later. The Elizabethan era in the second half of the 16th century is usually regarded as the height of the English Renaissance.
英国文艺复兴是15世纪末到17世纪初在英国发生的一场文化艺术运动。与大部分北欧国家一样，英国直到一个多世纪后才有些许发展。16世纪后半期的伊丽莎白时代通常被认为是英国文艺复兴的鼎盛时期。

The English Renaissance is different from the Italian Renaissance in several ways. The dominant art forms of the English Renaissance were literature and music. Visual arts in the English Renaissance were much less significant than in the Italian Renaissance. The English period began far later than the Italian, which is usually considered to begin with Dante, Petrarch and Giotto in the early 14th century. In contrast, the English Renaissance can only be said to begin, shakily, in the 1520s, and continued until perhaps 1620s.
英国文艺复兴与意大利文艺复兴有所不同。英国文艺复兴最主要的艺术形式是文学和音乐。视觉艺术在英国文艺复兴时期远不如在意大利文艺复兴更重要。英国文艺复兴时期也远远晚于开始于14世纪早期并以但丁、彼特拉克和乔托为代表的意大利文艺复兴。相比之下，英国文艺复兴时期只能说是缓慢地开始于16世纪20年代，可能一直持续到17世纪20年代。