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Comment Re:Italian (Score 1) 287

Agreed on principle, but I'd attribute the Renaissance more to the decline and fall of the Byzantine Empire. Many Greeks, including great scholars, fled to Italy in the 15th century, both before and after 1453. They played a major role in bringing the classics back to Western Europe. You're right about Arab science, though.

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