No knowledge. But we’re told that translation from Arabic is where https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Renaissance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_

No knowledge. But we’re told that translation from Arabic is where https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Renaissance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Renaissance is started. Not detail in wiki though. “ The Italian trade routes that covered the Mediterranean and beyond were also major conduits of culture and knowledge. The recovery of lost Greek classics brought to Italy by refugee Byzantine scholars who migrated during and following the Ottoman conquest of the Byzantine Empire in the 15th century were important in sparking the new linguistic studies of the Renaissance, in newly created academies in Florence and Venice. Humanist scholars searched monastic libraries for ancient manuscripts and recovered Tacitus and other Latin authors. The rediscovery of Vitruvius meant that the architectural principles of Antiquity could be observed once more, and Renaissance artists were encouraged, in the …”