The Renaissance, or “Rebirth,” is so named because the Italians of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries saw themselves turningaway from the medieval past toward a second birth of the spiritual and intellectual goals of the ancient world. From our perspective,the culture of the Italian Renaissance owes little to the ancient world as it really was, for they knew little about it, but was a directresponse to developments in medieval Europe itself. Artists rejected the earlier preference for flat, stylized religious art and grewenthusiastic about nature, naturalistic presentation, and classical myth, which they knew principally through Ovid and Vergil. But theyalways understood ancient myth in allegorical terms.
33. The author of this passage thinks that the Renaissance mainly originated from the influence of:
(A) The ancient Greek and Roman world
(B) The medieval Europe
(C) Ovid and Vergil
(D) None of the above