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Historians believe that Florence, Italy, was the birth-place of the Renaissance because Florence

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Florence was a wealthy center of trade in the late Medieval period.

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This is correct. This is a widely held belief due to two writers famous for being among the first renaissance authors: Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petraca 
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