Excerpt from The Reformation and Education (1520-1648)

With the accession of Nicholas V. to the throne of St. Peter, in the year 1446, the golden age of the Renaissance began. The spirit, no less than the principles of Humanism had been long at work. Even under the two preceding reigns of Martin V.and Eugenius IV, they are beheld actively engaged winning advocates and making foes and laying deep the foundations of the mighty changes which were so soon to follow, but of which few, if any, at the time had the remotest suspicion. Himself a humanist and a great patron of letters, Nicholas was alive to the necessity of reviving a learning, which, rightly understood, could not fail to serve a valuable religious and moral as well as intellectual purpose.

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