The Renaissance began around 1350 CE in Rome, Italy and continued (6)---- about 1600 CE. By the late 1500s, the centre of the Italian Renaissance (7)---- to shift from Rome to the wealthier city-state of Venice. As Venice was located in the Mediterranean Sea near the Italian Peninsula, its location (8)---- it ideal for trade at that time. Many people in Venice became rich and afforded the finer pleasures of art. Their money (9)---- many of the artists, writers, and scholars from Rome. There was more money in Venice than in Rome, and as a result, it (10)---- easier for a humanist to make a living in Venice.
