... some of their ideas were dangerous. Humanism and Italian culture continued to spread through the Low Countries (Netherlands, Switzerland), 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 Renaissance Italy, such as, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and Romeo & Juliet. Finally, Renaissance humanists had reached the goals ... that they had established when Petrarch and Boccaccio first started getting noticed. They were to establish a literary scholarship a...

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