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CONTENTS.
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| dicine for priority — General State of Literature — State of Public Libraries and those of Religious Houses — Dawn of more profitable Learning — Foundations of Wainfleet | 24 |
Chapter III. | |
| Visits Italy — Introduction to Politian at Bologna — State of Greek and Latin Languages in Italy — Johannes Argyropylus — Politian — Demetriusi Chalcondyles — Linacre received into the family of Lorenzo de' Medici at Florence — Studies under Politian and Chalcondyles — Goes to Rome — Acquaintance with Hermolaus Barbarus — Hermolaus Barbarus — Literary Entertainments — Proceeds to Venice — Aldus Manutius — Albertus Pius Duke of Carpi — Proceeds to Padua — Vicenza — Milan — Paris — Calais — Returns to England | 99 |
Chapter IV. | |
| Claims of Linacre, Grocyn, and Lilye to the title of Restorers of Greek Learning in England — Lilye's pursuits at Venice — Linacre returns to Oxford — Incorporated M.D. — Death of Selling — Arrival of Erasmus in England — His studies at Oxford — Progress of Arthur Prince of Wales — Introduction of Linacre at Court — Presumed Appointment of Physician to Henry VII. — Nature of that Office in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries — Giambattista de Boeria — Translations of Proclus on the Sphere — Bernard Andre — Death of Prince Arthur and | |
