This was despite a turbulent and generally disastrous period in Italian politics, in the course of which most of Italy was carved up by the major European powers. The European Renaissance began in Tuscany (Central Italy), and centred in the city of Florence. It later spread to Venice, where the remains of ancient Greek culture were brought together, providing humanist scholars with new texts.
(Redirected from Anne Hathaway (actress)) Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an American actress and singer. Her breakthrough debut film role was as Mia Thermopolis in the Disney comedy The Princess Diaries (2001).
1 Jeanette Nolan, who began her film career 50 years ago as Lady Macbeth opposite Orson Welles and is now being seen as the mother of the character played by Robert Redford in ''The Horse Whisperer,'' died on June 5 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Miss Nolan, who lived in Hollywood, was 86. She had suffered a stroke a week earlier, said her daughter, Holly Wright of Charlottesville, Va., and Manhattan. Miss Nolan's 70-year career in acting also included roles in theater, radio and television.