Annals of medical history . he pope atRome. He was essen-tially a student andbooks were his greatpassion. It will beremembered that afew years before thattime, about 1439,Gutenberg wasbuilding his pressesat Mainz. The real revivalof the Greek lettersis due in part toPetrarch, was born atAvignon and livedthere just before thetime of the residenceof the popes. He didnot begin the studyof Greek until hewas forty years old,but from then onspent most of histime studying thelanguage and stimu-lating search formanuscripts. Hisgreat friend and fellow-student was Boc-caccio, 1313-1375, who
Annals of medical history . he pope atRome. He was essen-tially a student andbooks were his greatpassion. It will beremembered that afew years before thattime, about 1439,Gutenberg wasbuilding his pressesat Mainz. The real revivalof the Greek lettersis due in part toPetrarch, was born atAvignon and livedthere just before thetime of the residenceof the popes. He didnot begin the studyof Greek until hewas forty years old,but from then onspent most of histime studying thelanguage and stimu-lating search formanuscripts. Hisgreat friend and fellow-student was Boc-caccio, 1313-1375, who was also interestedin classical studies. Petrarch formed oneof the first modern scholars his direction scholars traveled allover Italy and into Germany and Spain,collecting manuscripts from the monasteries,many of which are now deposited in theBibliotheque Nationale in Paris. He inspiredmany to master the Greek language and tosearch for manuscripts throughout is notsurprising then, that nearly one. hundred years later when Nicholas, keenlyalive to all movements of his period, wentto Constantinople, he was on the lookoutfor Greek manuscripts. Other libraries of importance were begunat or about this time. The Vatican Librarywas founded by Pope Nicholas v in de Medici had begun the MediceanCollection a littleearlier, to be fol-lowed by PoggioB r a c c i o 1 i n i, whoescaped from Con-stantinople with hisprecious freight inthe first years of thefifteenth the least ofthese is the libraryof Cusanus himself,founded in the hos-pital built by himin his native villageof Cues about his return,Cusanus reported tothe Pope in 1438 atFerrara and he wascreated a papallegate to variouscities in the nextnine years he spenthis time travelingthroughout Germanyand France. We hearof him at Mainz,Frankfort, Nuremberg and at the court ofCharles vii of France. He rallied the variousorganizations of the Church to the support ofEug
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