ch, found Cicero’s Familiar Letter’s. It was important for them to separate themselves from medieval period and translating and understanding these manuscripts helped them to do that. Some of these humanists who went to search for manuscripts included Poggio, Angelo Decembrio, and Pandolfo Collenuccio. Several of the established Universities in Europe such as The University of Paris, Oxford University, and Cambridge University were able to attract some humanists to their respected schools to become teachers or lecturers. But none of the truly great humanists made the trek to go and teach. “Stefano Surigone of Milan and Lorenzo Traversagni of Savona” were among the humanists to do this. Burke does say that “ with the exception of the elder Beroaldo and Girolamo Aleandro, no first-rate humanist went to teach outside of Italy or served on a foreign court”(5). Even though there weren’t many first-rate humanists invited to teach abroad, many second-rate humanists were, which shows that there was an interest in humanism and its ideas during the period in many parts of Europe: from England to France to Germany. Many of the leading scholars of the day were invited to foreign courts to “teach their children, look after their books, and praise their achievements in Latin”, say’s Burke (6). The example of King Mathias Corvinus of Hungary who had a humanist education is a good one to show how many rulers were interested in inviting Italian humanists to their courts. He continues, “Mathias tried to attract Ficino to Hungary. The attempt was unsuccessful, but a friend of Ficino’s Francesco Bandini, did enter the king’s service. He also invited several other humanists to his court for various other jobs including, a librarian and someone else to write a history of his country. Henry VII and Francis I also commissioned Italian humanists to do similar jobs that Ma...
