studies include Henrique Caiado, Conrad Mutianus, and Ulrich von Hutton who was a big supporter of Martin Luther. Hutton decided to change his program of studies after discovering the works of Lucian and Mutianus after discovering Plato. Other visitors to Italy that didn’t come to Italy to go to school usually came on diplomatic missions. While on the course of their mission they would meet a humanist and become interested in their ideas and also get books written by famous humanists. Robert Gaguin, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, and Sir Thomas Wyatt the famous poet.There aren’t many records of visitor’s reactions to Renaissance Italy but one important one is that of Erasmus. Burke writes, “A letter of 1506 explains that he went to Italy to learn Greek. Years later, he laid more emphasis on the opportunity to visit libraries and scholars. Toward the end of his life, he declared the he had already wanted to visit Italy when he was seventeen, and contrasted the Italian learning of that time with the ‘“horrid barbarism”’ of the north”(8). Agricola also wrote a letter from the University of Pavia saying that, “ the holiest, greatest, and most serious men of genius were to be found in Italy.” It is evident that many of the foreign visitors to Italy were very impressed by the ideas that were expressed by the Italian humanists. In fact, many of them took books home with them. In many foreign libraries their are works by Italian scholar’s, which shows that Italian humanism did have an influence in other countries. So far, I have been trying to explain the spread of Italian humanism by citing examples of humanist scholars leaving Italy for various reasons from exile to teaching. Also by showing examples of foreigners coming to Italy to continue there education and getting hooked on humanism. But not every visitor who came to Italy returned home converted to humanis...
