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Give reasons for the origin of the Renaissance in Italy.

  • UPSC 2007
  • Enlightenment and Modern Ideas

Renaissance ideas eventually spread across all of Europe, but they took root first, and most vigorously, in the Italian peninsula — a fact demanding explanation beyond mere coincidence.

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  • Economic Foundations: Trade, Banking and Urban Wealth
  • Political Fragmentation and Civic Culture
  • The Classical Inheritance: Rome's Physical and Textual Legacy
  • The Fall of Constantinople and the Greek Migration
  • Patronage: Church, Princes and Merchant Elites

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