Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

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It does suggest, however, a different number: the reformation began with the Lutherean theses in 1519; the high Renaissance may ... “the Prince of Humanism”; and the first publication of ...

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