... Communication was a major obstacle but Italian humanists also faced very strong opposition from scholars and teachers from other European Universities such as the University of Vienna, the University of Cologne, and the University of Paris. They didn't like the scholarship that humanists taught especially the rhetoric and poetry which Overfield comments they thought they were "studies in vanity ... into France, Germany, and the Iberian Peninsula. And finally over into England, where the fascination for Italian culture can be shown in several of William Shakespeare's plays set in Renaiss...

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