Question

Why were Italian towns the first to experience the ideas of humanism?

Answer 1

• In 1453, Constantinople was overthrown, and the Turkish or Ottoman Empire took the place of the Eastern Roman Empire. 
• Many of the educated men who spoke Greek fled to Italy for safety.
• Some of them brought their Greek books with them. 
• This increased interest among Italians in the ancient Greek literature. 
• The literature of the ancient Greek had reflected an interest in life. 
• Later, students of the ancient Greek literature, which dealt with the nature and interest of man, were called Humanists. 
• Thus humanism started in Italy and then spread to other European states.