FILE: 0001_Gothic-Style-in-Italy.jpg

TITLE: Italian Gothic - Roots of the Renaissance

DESCRIPTION: Gothic Style in Italy = "Proto"Renaissance, or the model upon which later Renaissance stuff would be based. In Italian Gothic, Classical order is returning. Giomani Francesco Bernadoni AKA St. Francis of Assisi started Monastic Order, "Friars Minor". Important because Catholicism changed and widened its scope to include it. Italy wasn't a country but a collection of city-states. Early Christianity started in Constantinople. What did Italy have to do with Constantinople? Constantinople was the capital of The Roman Empire.