[96a] The only two possible exceptions to this assertion, Joachim of Brandenburg, who founded the University of Frankfurt-on-Oder, and Eitelwolf von Stein, who introduced Hutten to the Court of Mainz.
[98] An educational movement was set in motion at Deventer by the Brethren of the Common Life, headed by Gerhard Groot, and later by Radewins. The chief of many brilliant pupils were Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, Rudolph Agricola, and Alexander Hegius. Among its offshoots was the School of Schletstadt in Alsace, whence Wimpheling came.
[99] _Defensio theologiae contra turpem libellum Philomusi_.
[100] See letter of Wimpheling to Brant, quoted by Schmidt, _Histoire Litteraire de l'Alsace_, i., page 31.
[102] See Prof. Ulmann, _Studie über Maximilians I Plan einer deutschen Kirchenreform in_ 1510--in Briegers Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, vol. iii.
[104] Janssen, i., p. 304. The English translation of Alexander Barclay, published in 1508, is a favourite with collectors of rare editions.
[105] "A prince can mak' a belted knight A marquis, duke an' a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might-- Guid faith, he mauna fa' that."--_Burns_.
"Ferre lo Sole il fango tutto il giorno; Vile riman, nè il Sol perde calore. Dice uomo altier, 'Gentil per schiatta torno'; Lui sembro al fango, al Sol gentil valore."--_Guido Guinicelli_.
[106] _Elegiaca exhortatio contra perfldos et sacrilegos Flamingos_--quoted Schmidt, i., p. 283.
[109] One of the trade routes from Venice and the East was through Innsbruck direct to Augsburg.
[110] The great houses of Fugger and Welser had connexions throughout Europe.
[112] The following list of his visits does not profess to be complete--1491, 1502, 1504, March 1508, February to May and June to July 1510, March to April, and May 1513, March 1514, January 1515, January 1516, January and July 1517, July 1518.
[113] See Theodor Herberger, _Conrad Peutinger in seinem Verhältniss zum Kaiser Maximilian I_.
[114] _Romanae vetustatis fragmenta in Augusta Vindelicorum et eius Diocesi_.
[115] His chief publications were: (1) _Historia horarum Canonicarum de S. Hieronymo_ (1512). (2) _Jornandes, De rebus Gothorum_ (1515). (3) _Paulus Diaconus forojuliensis, de gestis Langobardorum_ (1515). (4) _Chronicon Abbatis Urspergensis a Nino Rege Assyriorum magno usque ad Fridericum II. Rom. Imperatorem_ (1515). (5) New edition of Macrobius, _De Somno Scipionis_. He also wrote himself--_Sermones convivales de finibus Germaniae contra Gallos_, and _Germania ex variis scriptoribus perbrevis explicatio_.