1. Influential Classicalism
From the twelfth century on, traditional style was the area mostly of legal counselors and churchmen, most outstandingly in the ecclesiastical curia (the ring of scholars and secretaries who carried on ecclesiastical business), where learned men could meet up to impart their premiums in established letters and style. ... Greek had been a key piece of the Roman instructive framework; any informed Roman would have known it and possessed the capacity to quote from its most celebrated creators and speakers, for example, Demosthenes, Aristophanes, or Lucian. As humanists in Petrarch's ring per...
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