Cardinal Bessarion (1403 "1472), a cleric who changed over from the Greek to the Latin church and was a resolute promoter of aged Greek studies, granted a large number of Greek original copies to the populace of his received home of Venice, where they framed the core of St. ... The works of Plato were particularly compelling, and a ring of Neoplatonic researchers headed by Marsilio Ficino (1433 "1499) looked to circuit Christian thought with Platonic philosophy. ... "1430) and Guarino da Verona (1370/1374 "1460) pulled in affluent understudies to study aged writing and soc...

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It developed during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and was a response to the challenge of medieval scholastic education, emphasizing practical, pre-professional and scientific studies. Scholasticism focused on preparing men to be doctors, layers of professional theologians, and was taught from approved textbooks in logic, natural philosophy, medicine, law and theology. ... This was accomplished through the study of the studia humanitatis, today known as the humanities: grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry and moral philosophy. ... " (I.i.27), but has nonetheless become unsatisfied with...

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All scientific or philosophical studies were supervised by, and in most cases produced by the Church. These alleged explanations of the world and everything it contained were produced by Biblical studies and the Aristotelian system, which became standard Church doctrine. ... Propelled by geographical explorations, artists and thinkers began to find new specimens of study and yearned to know and portray reality. ... "These scientific observers were surprised to find that their conclusions did not always match up with the accepted truths, and this finding inspired others to delve further into...

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