Humanism Spread Throughout Europe

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ssons one needed to lead a moral and effective life. Their scholarship was one of the main factors in the start of the Renaissance.
After humanism had established itself as a formidable type of studies and it began to spread throughout Europe mainly by the traveling of these humanist scholars to and from Italy and the traveling of interested foreigners to Italy to see what all of the fuss was about. According to Dr. Peter Burke, “ The expatriate humanists were not missionaries and they did not particularly want to leave Italy. What geographers call the “push” factor was more important than the “pull” of foreign countries ” (4). Which means that some humanist left Italy because they were forced to. For example, two conspiracies forced Filippo Buonaccorsi and Luigi Alamanni out of Italy. Filippo was involved in a conspiracy against Pope Paul II and was forced to leave to Poland where he became very famous. Luigi was forced out of Florence for being involved in a conspiracy against the Medici family and fled to France to serve in Francis I court. Both went on to be successes in other countries because o!
f their humanist training, which was becoming very desirable for the higher classes of people to learn in other European countries. Celio Secundo Curione wasn’t a conspirator but left for Switzerland in 1542 for fear of religious persecution. Burke said that “ Curion, an apparent Anabaptist, taught classics at Basel and translated Guicciardini’s History of Italy into Latin”(5). Making his contribution as a humanist. But most Italian humanists weren’t forced out of Italy but instead left for there own reasons. Many of them left to search for manuscripts because the discovery and translating of ancient manuscripts made them feel as if they were reviving these ancient texts. For example, Salutati, the humanist who was greatly influenced by Petrarch, found Cicero’s Familiar Letter’s. It was important f...