Which does not explain how Renaissance ideas spread beyond Italy?

AItalian merchants traveled all over Europe carrying with them luxury goods printed classical Greek and Latin texts as well as modern printed works and Italian artwork

BWhen foreign armies invaded Italy they took Italian artwork and ideas home

CMerchants and scholars exported classical Greek and Latin texts printed in Venice and contemporary works such as Machiavellis The Prince and Castigliones The Book of the Courtier

DWhen Italian art patrons fell on hard times they sold most of their precious artwork to pay their debts