<Li> The Doge's palace in Venice </Li> <Li> St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the most renowned work of architecture of the Renaissance </Li> <Li> Galileo Galilei, Tuscan scientist and father of the experimental method </Li> <Li> Christopher Columbus, Genoese explorer and colonizer whose voyages initiated the European colonization of the new world </Li>

Why did the renaissance take place in northern italy