CHAPTER XI.

PISA UNIVERSITY. MANUSCRIPTS AND CRITICISM. PRINTING. PLATONIC SYMPOSIA.

Latin Poets—Ugolino Verino—Alessandro Bracci—G. B. Contalicio—Tommaso Baldinotti—Pierio Riccio—Pisa and its University before Lorenzo’s Time—Lorenzo de’ Medici and Pisa—Restoration of the University—Filelfo’s Endeavours after a Professorship—Difficulties of the New Establishment—Professors of the University—Bartolommeo Sozzini—the Brothers Decio—Waldo Bartolini—Francesco Accolti—Pierio Leoni—Lorenzo Lippi—Bartolommeo von Pratovecchio—Francesco de’ Massimi—Studies in Florence—Fontius and Chalcondylas—Johannes Lascaris—The high Development of Greek Studies—Platina and Pomponius Leti in connection with Lorenzo—Examination of Manuscripts—Emendations—Poliziano’s Critical Works—Collation of the Pandects—Translations—The Art of Printing—Bernardo Cennini—First Printing in Florence—Increased Diffusion of Literary Treasures—Manuscript Collectors in Florence—Lorenzo de’ Medici as a Manuscript Collector—Poliziano in Venice—Cassandra Fedele—Piero de’ Medici and the Medicean Collections—The Books of Mathias Corvinus—Intercourse between the Learned of Hungary and Florence—Collections of Inscriptions—The Academy at Rome—Fra Giocondo of Verona—Lorenzo de’ Medici as the Centre of the Learned World—Assemblies of the Platonic Academy—Platonic Symposia—The Exact Sciences—Paolo Toscanelli—Amerigo Vespucci 96

THIRD PART.

THE FINE ARTS.