Roman academies includes a description of Papal academies in Rome including historical and bibliographical notes concerning the more important of these. Roman Academies were associations of learned men and not institutes for instruction.
These Roman Academies were always a part of a larger educational structure which existed both in Florence and Rome since the Italian Renaissance. At its apogee (from the close of the Western Schism in 1418) to the middle of the 16th century) found two intellectual centers, Florence and Rome. Scientific, literary, and artistic culture attained in them a development as intense as it was multiform, and the earlier Roman and Florentine academies were typical examples of this variety.
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