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. ... As humanists in Petrarch's ring perused more aged creators they found that a full energy about their writing obliged a careful foundation in the writing and society of old Greece. ... They likewise grasped non-Christian thoughts and restored old agnostic functions, which ...
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