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Does the refinement from the late humanism ever manifest on the Balkans?

Specific historical circumstances and strong centers of science and art that arose in the late
16th and at the beginning of 17th century conditioned that this period is defined as a specific
cultural and historical era - late humanism. The first person which defined the notion of late
humanism is the respected scientist in the field of German studies, Erich Trunc in his famous
study in 1931. Trunc has defined culture of late humanism as the culture of classes with a huge
contribution from Protestant humanists in the Holy Roman Empire at the turn from 16th to 17th
century. At the time, around the 1600s which we define as late humanism, the progress of
humanity sciences reflects on the culture, also literature experience a boom. Centers of late
humanism were Prague, Vienna, followed by Heidelberg and Stuttgart. Among the university
centers stand out Basel, Tbingen and Ingolstadt, which inherited humanist ideals since the time
of classical humanism. Nowadays, and late humanist centers are the focus of study as a
university center of Altdorf in Bavaria. Although late humanism is mainly related to states inside
the Holy Roman Empire, its centers are also the London, Milan and Leiden. About late
humanism in the Balkans, in the historical sense, it is hard to tell, even in the context of culture,
through the prism of the values that this epoch ascended to its centers in Central and Western
Europe. Late humanism in the Balkans can be sure experienced through the spirit and oeuvre of
the sons from this region who have prospered in the late humanist centers. The most notable of
them was a Dalmatian Faust Vrani, historian and inventor, who was during the period between
1579-1594, at the court of Rudolf II in Prague. On this tenuous link will this cultural era remain
in relation to the Balkans.

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