The German imperial knight and humanist Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523) advocated the dissolution of Germany's ties with the papacy. He advanced an unrealistic program, however, for solving German natio...
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In a well-known letter of 25 October 1518 to the Nuremburg patrician and humanist Willibald Pirckheimer, Ulrich von Hutten expressed his personal optimism and his hope for the humanist cause: "O secul...
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