So many Renaissance powerhouses came from Florence — Dante, Pacioli, Galileo, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Machiavelli, Giotto, Botticelli, Leonardo, Fra Filippo Lippi, Michelangelo, Ghiberti, Brunelleschi. What was in their water? Why did they produce so many artists/innovators per capita? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

So many Renaissance powerhouses came from Florence — Dante, Pacioli, Galileo, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Machiavelli, Giotto, Botticelli, Leonardo, Fra Filippo Lippi, Michelangelo, Ghiberti, Brunelleschi. What was in their water? Why did they produce so many artists/innovators per capita?

by RusticBohemian

AlviseFalier

There's no single definitive reason, but I offered my approach to answering the question here which you might like to read.