What does "Renaissance" mean?

During the Middle Ages, little importance was given to the past. The ruins
of Greece and Rome were covered with weeds.
In the libraries of castles and convents could still be found manuscripts
that dealt with science and art, but were covered by thick layers of
dust…
Nobody seemed interesting to know the history of the towns.
When cities were created, people became more independent of their
masters and ceased to be subordinates. The sages were able to carry
out all kinds of investigations and returned to be interested in the past.
They went back to study the ancient manuscripts and there were people
who moved to Rome and even to Greece to study the sources of our
civilization.
The ancient glory of Greece and Rome was reborn in Europe and
everything related to classical antiquity interested men.
In Italy there lived Francesco Petrarca, an authentic pre-Renaissance
revelation, born in 1304. He was always an intelligent boy. At school he
was discontented with his bored teachers and with the even more
boring books he had to study.
Finding that he had thus lost seven valuable years of life, he devoted
himself to travel to discover the world for himself. During these trips he
learned a lot about the Romans and the Greeks.
He traveled from city to city and in each of them he devoted himself to
looking for old manuscripts.
Until his death, which occurred in 1374, he was continually interested in
new subjects, not always related to science. Before the strangeness of
many people, was able to climb a mountain just to enjoy the landscape:
it was simply a manifestation of the new way of thinking.
Petrarch was the first humanist.
This term designates who, in philosophy, part of the study of man.
Answer the questions:

1.-Why do you think that in the Middle Ages science books were covered

by a large layer of dust?

2.-How were the ruins of Greece and Rome?

3.-What does the text refer to when the old Greece and Rome were

reborn?

4.-What is the name of the Italian boy who was very intelligent and who

traveled to Rome and Greece?

5.-Why, if he was considered intelligent, did he not like school and get

out of it?

6.-Why did people miss Francesco?

7.-What does humanist mean?

8.-Why is Francesco Petrarca important?

9.-What does the word Renaissance mean? Explain