Help with Discussion Assignment A and B

A) Why did the Renaissance start in Italy? Describe the role of the aristocratic courts of such powerful figures as the de Medicis and the papacy in engendering and sustaining this cultural revival.

B) The main goal of all Renaissance humanists was to fix their own world by recovering the glories of ancient Rome and Greece. How was this effort to revive antiquity reflected in the art and literature of the Renaissance?

Description of each question asnwer.

Primary postings should include either a concise summary of information from the textbook or an analysis of the topic under study. Please do not use long quotations. I will be especially impressed with postings that use materials and resources found on the textbook's website or other reliable sources. If you do use any source other that the textbook, please note within the text of your discussion posting where you got the information. 

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Works Cited

Kagan, Donald, Steven Ozment, Frank Turner, and Alison Frank. The Western Heritage, Volume 1. Upper Saddle River, NJ, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2013.