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| | The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy By By Jacob Burckhardt - Translated by S. G. C. Middlemore, 1878- part-6 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Fra Ambrogio Camaldolese, as a spiritual dignitary chiefly occupied with ecclesiastical affairs, and as a literary man with the translation of the Greek Fathers of the Church, could not repress the humanistic impulse, and at the request of Cosimo de' Medici, undertook to translate Diogenes Laertius into Latin. |
 | | His contemporaries, Niccolo Niccoli, Giannozzo Manetti, Donato Acciaiuoli, and Pope Nicholas V, united to a many-sided humanism profound biblical scholarship and deep piety. |
 | | In Vittorino da Feltre the same temper has been already noticed. |
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