... hostile toward Italy since it held Rome, where the headquarters for the Roman Catholic Church is located. Given this information it's not hard to see why Italian humanists had such a hard time getting their ideas heard during this period. Although the Reformation and the academic opposition from abroad did hamper the spread of Italian humanism it didn't stop the moveme! nt. As ... fascination for Italian culture can be shown in several of William Shakespeare's plays set in Renaissance Italy, such as, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and Romeo & Juliet. Finally, Renaissance humanists had...

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