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Defining when the Italian Renaissance ended is somewhat difficult. Typically, the Italian Renaissance has been tied to fortunes of Florenceand Rome (especially Florence). At the end of the 14th century, after the collapse of the Florentine economy tied the Little Ice Age, the disruption of trade by war, and the devastation of the Black Plague, Florence began to rebound. It was initially drive driven by artists such as Petrarch and Dante who began to question the Church and the previous beliefs.

Florence's decline and the eventual abandonment of the ideals of the Renaissance began with the invasion of Florence in 1494 by France and gained speed as Italy broke out into warfare between its city -states. Additionally, like most significant polictical political and intellectual movements, it gave birth to a severe backlash. By the 1550s, many of the works of literature and art that help birth the Renaissance were banned. By the mid -1550s, the Italian Renaissance was essentially over. While the Renaissance died in Florenceand Rome, it its ideas, beliefs , and art had spread across Europe. These other Renaissances continued even as Florence's and Rome's rebirth stalled.