... reasonably well. However, those engaged in non-luxury crafts in cities involved in long-distance trade might fall foul of merchant-entrepreneurs. For example, Frankfurt's lacemakers worked on this putting-out basis for a few rich silk merchants by 1587; the same thing happened in Antwerp's silk and construction industries, Lyons's silk industry, Nuremberg's weapons and metalworking industry ... Cameron56). Cities grew in stature in terms of the architectural layout of an urban area and by the sixteenth century these markets had became the focal points of local, regional, or long-distance ...

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... culture can be shown in several of William Shakespeare's plays set in Renaissance Italy, such as, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and Romeo & Juliet. Finally, Renaissance humanists had reached the goals that they had established when Petrarch and Boccaccio first started getting noticed. They were to establish a literary scholarship as a form of studies, to train individuals apart from the religious aspect of studies, the stress of classical studies, and to give ... a sense of identity to their own culture. Humanism spread ... ...

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