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How did Italian trading families play a role in the renaissance in Italy

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The trading families like the Fuggers or Medici's were crucial in bring the renaissance because their extreme wealth needed an outlet to spend that wealth on. Many of them spent it on art, such as the Medici funded paintings of the era.
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