Word: italianism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Sandys graphically described the homes of the Italian humanists--the scholars of the Renaissance--by taking his audience in an imaginary journey through the principal Italian cities of the fifteenth century. Leaving Florence we enter Venice, the portal through which Greek literature passed from the East to the West, and crossing back to the mainland, we proceed to the stately city of Parma. To the humanists it was a place of transient rather than of permanent abode, yet its interest in the classics was exemplified in 1413 by the sensation created there over the alleged discovery of the bones...
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...academy of Venice was founded in 1500, and was primarily an academy of Hellenists. Greek was spoken at its meetings and Greek names were adopted by its Italian members...