It spread with the humanist movement to the cities and courts of Italy, breathing a new philosophy into an old world. "Civic humanism found expression in art, religion, history, education and Rabil developed the popularity of civic humanism by comparing humanism to an alliance between the man of thought and the man of action who found his full expression in Florence where “erudition was associated with a republican civic spirit…this civic humanism spread in the cities of Italy during the Quattrocento and.. in doing so, it profoundly affected attitudes and developments in the arts and.