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).
Her father, Gerald T. Hathaway, is an attorney and her mother, Kate McCauley Hathaway, is a singer and actress. She grew up in New Jersey, but loves being a Manhattanite for most of last seven years now, as demonstrated by her 2013 Oscar-night comments.