Download or read book The Flowering of the Renaissance written by Vincent Cronin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the collapse of Medici rule in fifteenth-century Florence, the centre of Renaissance activity moved first to Rome and finally to Venice. In the Rome of Julius II and Leo X which Michelangelo remodelled and beautified, in the Venice of Titian and Tintoretto and Palladio, the Renaissance reached the height of its splendour, not only in the visual arts but also in the theatre, history, biography, epic poetry and music.