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sixteenth century, the ”spirit of the age”
was fostered by the invention of printing, by
the downfall of the Byzantine Empire, and
the scattering of Greek fugitives, carrying
the treasures of literature through West-
ern Europe, by the works of Raphael and
Michael Angelo, by the Reformation, and
by the extension of the known world through
the voyages of Spaniards and Portuguese.
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