All of the Following Statements Involving Petrarch's Defense of Humanists

question 38

Multiple Choice

All of the following statements involving Petrarch's defense of humanists are correct except

• A)humanists believed that the study of classics did not make them less Christian.
• B)according to humanists, all that is seen or perceived is made by God
• C)by studying the classics, one learns for the sake of knowledge alone but still remains the same man in regard to the belief in God.
• D)reading the classics translated into Latin destroys any pagan influence.
• E)one could be a Ciceronian, Platonist and still be a Christian.

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