Book 3 — CHAPTER VI
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SCHOLARSHIP IN ITALY 501
Italy Alma Mater Studiorum. The New Learning. AEneas Sylvius (Pope Pius II). Cardinal Bessarion. {xviii} Greek teachers, Chalcondyles, Gaza, Trebizond and Argyropulos. Pope Nicholas V. Academy of Florence. Landino, Ficino and Politian. Italian academies. Pomponius Laetus, Platina, Roman Academy, Vitruvian Academy, Academy of Naples, Venice, Calepinus. Pico della Mirandola.