ABSTRACT
The spread of Italian humanism throughout the European continent is one of the most dramatic cultural phenomena of the late medieval period. While the movement had begun its rise in Italy, it was not long before other regions were influenced. It was not only the immediate transalpine lands which came to savour the tastes which the humanists had refined. More distant regions such as Hungary, Bohemia and Poland-Lithuania also found themselves increasingly familiar with the humanist movement in the course of the fifteenth century. Gregory of Sanok, whose eventual archiepiscopal court at Lwow became after 1451 one of the leading centres of Renaissance letters in east central Europe, was born about 1407. During the last three decades of the fifteenth century the humanistic movement became firmly established in Poland and at the university. Outside the institutional structure of the studium an increasing number of individuals associated with the life of the school found humanistic and literary concerns to be attractive.
