"Various theories have been proposed to explain its origin and characteristics, focusing on an assortment of factors, including the social and civic peculiarities of Florence at this time including its political structure and the patronage of its dominant family, the Medici."

This is a couple of sentences from an article about the Renaissance. I have to annotate the article. I would like to annotate the following, but I am not sure what they mean.

1. civic
2.peculiarities
3. patronage

HELP!!!

1 answer

Multiple Post. I see you have an answer on the later post.

Sra