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Politian, the poet, courtier, and tutor of Lorenzo's children, could affirm amid many backslidings, ^^ Nature and youth drew me to Homer, and with all the zeal of which I was capable I set myself to translate him into Latin verse." Plorence was more Greek than any other spot save Athens; and the influence of Ghalcondylas and Johann Lascaris was permeating all classes. Germans, English, and Portuguese flocked here to learn Greek, as students formerly sought Athens. Alexander Pamese acquired a ta...ste for classical literature at Plorence which the old Pope Paul IIL had not forgotten. Statutes of codes of law became established since Taddeo Accorso had formulated them; mariners navigated by means of the stars; medical men followed Alderotti to Bologna, the seat of learning ; mathematics and astronomy were developed. Pisa was more advanced. Leonardo Fibonacci, son of the agent of the Pisan Republic at Bugia, on the Barbary coast, studied algebra, and intro- 10 146 THE LILY OF THE ARNO. dnced the use of Arabic numerals.
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