GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Florence, where the Italian Renaissance began, was an independent republic. It was also a banking and commercial capital and, after London and Constantinople, the third-largest city in Europe.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Renaissance is generally considered to have started in Florence, Italy around the years 1350 to 1400. The start of the Renaissance also was the end of the Middle Ages. One of the big changes in the Renaissance was in the basic way people thought about things.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Humanism” is the modern term for the intellectual movement that initiated the Italian Renaissance, which later spread to northern Europe. The humanist movement originated in Florence in the mid-1300s and began to affect other countries shortly before 1500.