1. Influential Classicalism
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. ... Cardinal Bessarion (1403 "1472), a cleric who changed over from the Greek to the Latin church and was a resolute promoter of aged Greek studies, granted a large number of Greek original copies to the populace ...
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