Why did Italian Humanist printers prefer roman type to black-letter type for Latin texts?

Italian Humanist printers preferred roman type over black-letter type for Latin texts because they viewed the pointed, angular style of Gothic (black-letter) script as a symbol of the Middle Ages, an era they considered an intellectual deviation from the standards of the Classical age.12

The Humanist movement sought to restore what they believed was their lost heritage, and they associated the refined, rounded letterforms of the Carolingian minuscule—which they mistakenly believed were the scripts used by the ancient Romans—with the spirit of Humanism and classical literature. Consequently, when Italian printers began producing Latin texts, they found the "pointed stateliness" of black-letter type to be out of keeping with their aesthetic and intellectual goals. They developed roman type as a more legible, historically aligned alternative, which they called Antiqua to distinguish it from the "modern" black-letter styles.321