"Rome Reborn"

Petrarch was a scholar of Aretine (Arezzo), a commune in Central Italy that provides a administrative divsion pertaining to the basic civil functions; and also one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch was often called the "Father of Humanism", who sought to create a citizenry able to speak and write with clarity. During the mid-fifteenth century, visitors saw Petrarch destructive, describing the various city buildings to be toppled with broken statues and a miserable population who developed their homes in the imperial ruins. The humanists' thought of the ruined fragments, columns and statues to be individual secret codes of perfect proportion based on harmony with the human body itself; ideal representations of the human form. I guess you can say the citizenry wasn't able to engage in the civic life properly. 

crucifix speaking, "rebuild my church".

Later on... The fifteenth century began to progress into the sixteenth century, and a great economical standing begins to improve!... substantially because of the huge increase of investments and sums of money dedicated to improve the city. Close to the end of the sixteenth century, construction became the city's prime industry, consuming of multiple army collaborations of architects, sculptors, painters, masons, stonecutters, blacksmiths, woodworkers, rope makers and plasterers. By this time Petrarch and his fellow humanistic friends were compelled to work as well to live well. 

A huge foundation that was born for "Rome Reborn" was the attempt to build the Vatican Library. In 1451, Pop Nicholas V conceives of the library for the "convince of the learned" and the Vatican library was born. At this time his collection acquired about 1,160 books. By 1475 Pope Sixtus IV actually brings the library to life by installing the collection of books in a suite of rooms, including Greek authors, like the Egyptian Jewish Neoplatonist Philo of Alexandria, and also translated from Greek to Latin offering the avaiablity to a greater number of readers. 

Well you can't have a library without a librarian so... Sixtus awards Bartolomeo Platina as the Vatican's first librarian, who contributed his own massive series of "Lives of Jesus Christ and the Popes", which he took full advantage to ensure severe criticism towards Pope Paul II as a monster for all posterity. 

Ultimately there were 3,500 entries that were recorded by 1481, showing the library was growing enormously, acquiring collections without restrictions pertaining to the reader's religious or other views. The Vatican Library was considered the greatest in Europe and still is today.