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Excerpt from The Italian Renaissance in England Studies
In all, three stages can be discerned in the l: tory of the Italian influence in England during period of the Renaissance. The first, extending to the end of the fifteenth century, found a centre at the University of Oxford. It succeeded, after several attempts, in introducing the new classical and scien tihe learning of Italy into England, and thereby laid the foundation for all future English scholarship. The second and third epochs embrace respectively the two halves of the sixteenth century. The growth of Italian culture at court marked the former; it flourished there under royal protection, and assisted in creating the new types of accomplished courtier and learned traveller, often the same individual under difl'erent aspects. The third and last period witnessed a great extension of the Italian influence, as it spread gradu ally from the court to the people at large. At the same time, the moral and national reaction against Italy, which was further fostered by the growth of Puritanism, put an end to much of this influence.
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