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.
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It is during this time that Anne Hathaway, the future wife of famed bard. William Shakespeare was born in 1556. She grew up in a village called. Shottery, about a mile from Stratford, the Shakespeare 's home town, and was the eldest of eight children. During this time.