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Humanists and mendicant maitres d’esprit were among the most authoritative opinion makers of the Quattrocento, but the relationship between them was in fact less than idyllic. Both groups have separately been the object of a vast bibliography of studies, but rather little has been written on the relationship between them and even that little not always correctly. One has the sense that when opposing each other, the combatants had a rather defective understanding of one another, an original sin that very often one finds reproduced in historians of the two sides. The purpose of this essay is to bring this problem to light by letting the combatants speak for themselves, thus allowing the reader to judge on the reliability of their evaluations of each other.
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