Renaissance Culture Spread Throughout Europe by the Late Sixteenth Century

Renaissance culture spread throughout Europe by the late sixteenth century primarily because of

A) the persecution of Renaissance humanists in Spain, causing them to move to Northern Europe.
B) economic prosperity and competition between political and religious leaders.
C) the drastic increase in literacy as a result of the use of the printing press.
D) an influx of Muslim intellectuals after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.