Word: laetus
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...Academy of Naples arose out of social gatherings, the centre of which was the poet Antonio of Palermo. The Academy of Rome, which owed its origin to Pomponius Laetus, flourished until 1468. It was then suppressed for a time, but was revived again under Pope Sixtus IV and flourished in the age of Leo X, only to be overwhelmed finally in the general rain which accompanied the sack of Rome in 1527 by the Spanish and German troops of the Emperor Charles...
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