>>wonder how Europe would look like today if somebody had sacked Italy during the renaissance. I’ve read (probably on Wikipedia..) that it’s theorized that the

>>wonder how Europe would look like today if somebody had sacked Italy during the renaissance. I’ve read (probably on Wikipedia..) that it’s theorized that the Renaissance was actually largely caused by the fall of Constantinople and the resulting migration of intellectuals and writings (from classical antiquity)from east to west back into Italy (and Florence specifically) The rebirth was for the west, the east (Byzantine empire) never lost the culture of knowledge.