All of the Following Are Reasons Why the Ideals of the Italian

All of the following are reasons why the ideals of the Italian Renaissance were slow to impact northern Europe EXCEPT that:

A) the curricula of northern universities left little room for study of the classics.
B) education in the north was more religiously oriented compared to the more secular education common in the south.
C) few people traveled between Italy and northern Europe before the turn of the sixteenth century.
D) rulers in the north were less committed to patronizing artists and intellectuals than were the rulers of the Italian city-states.
E) most individuals who were influenced by Renaissance thought before the sixteenth century were not public intellectuals or teachers but worked outside the university system under private patronage.