Francesco de Melzi was an Italian painter...He was basically Leonardo Da Vinci's favorite student and life companion.
The answer is true.
The Midwest is called the "bread basket" because it had fertile soils which produced bountiful amounts of crops like wheat and oats for the farmers.
Mussolini gradually dismantled the institutions of democratic government, making himself dictator. Mussolini always agreed to give the church what it wished. The regime was held together by a strong state control and Mussolini’s cult of personality.
The statement that correctly explains why the European Renaissance began in the Italian city-states would be "<span>A. Their location along the Mediterranean Sea made them major centers of trade," since this allowed the new ideas to spread with relative ease. </span>
