1088 – 1500 ITALY as fulcrum of EUROPEAN Culture & Arts (jan 1, 1300 – dec 31, 1550)
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1088 - Fundation of University---
"The movement of "international Italophilia" around 1600 certainly held the German territories in its sway, with one statistic suggesting that up to a third of all books available in Germany in the early 17th century were in Italian"
- Burke, Peter. "The Uses of Italy," in Roy Porter and Mikulás̆ Teich, ed., The Renaissance in National Context. Cambridge University Press, 1992. p. 13. Web. 21 November 2013.
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jan 1, 1300
dec 31, 1550
~ 251 years