1. Influential Classicalism
It was in this environment at Avignon that Petrarch (1304 "1374), the father of Italian humanism, initially looked into and advanced established learning. ... The recovery of Greek learning was supported by becoming contact between the Greek and Latin holy places at the Council of Ferrara-Florence in 1438 "1445 furthermore by the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453, after which Greek émigrés escaping the city took up habitation in Italy and brought home the bacon by instructing Greek to Italian understudies. ... Their pupils carried on their teachings "both...
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