As a cultural movement, the Italian Renaissance affected only a small part of the population. Italy was the most urbanized region of Europe, but three quarters of the people were still rural peasants. For this section of the population, life remained essentially unchanged from the Middle Ages.
Although I enjoyed the book, The Hellbound Heart, the movie version, Hellraiser - with the awesomely cheesy blue and yellow 80's FX - is a bit better and mainly because it was more fully realized.
The Harlem Hellfighters is a graphic novel written by author Max Brooks with illustrations done by Caanan White.[1] It is a fictionalized account of the experiences of the entirely African American 369th Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighters by German soldiers, during the First World War.