No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile
Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
-Walter Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873)
The passage above reflects which of the following Renaissance traits?
A
the combination of European religious traditions with classical sources
B
the development of new artistic methods
С
the development of new ideas about government, such as democracy
D
the growth of more secular lifestyles amongst the wealthy