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Italy During the 1490s' Decade

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experimenting, where intellectuals were examining, and a time when technology was making some breakthroughs that would assist the Renaissance. It was only a decade, but as we can see from  our own experience with but one decade, a great deal of change was instigated. Bearing that in mind the following paper briefly examines some of the events of the 1490s,  illustrating their influence on the Renaissance. The Decade of the 1490s One interesting device which was to change Italy, if not the world, was the "advent of printing  in the 1490s" It was "the Italian printer Aldus Manutius" who "established a Greek press in Venice. The choice of location no doubt dictated by the availability of Greek texts  in the library of St. Marks, for Manutius based his editions on these books" (Harris, 2002). With that invention, however, knowledge began to be far more accessible to people. It  was to ultimately change the world. We note that "Manutius made use of the large pool of native Greek speakers provided by the Greek community to assist him in the  preparation of texts for publication. It was with the help of ?migr? Greeks like Demetrius Doukas and Mark Mousouros, that Manutius produced printed editions of nearly all the works of  the major Greek authors of antiquity before 1515, thus ensuring their survival for posterity" (Harris, 2002). In pointing to some other events, we look first at some information that  offers events along a timeline. In 1490 "Leonardo da Vinci describes capillary action after Veronese anatomist Marc Antonia Della Torre dies and he dissects 10 human bodies in the cellar  of the Santa Spirito by candlelight to fulfill a vow to him" (Winslow. 2002). This was clearly an event that started change in relationship to how we view the body