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Who were Manutius's friends in Rome?

  • Lorenzo de Medici

  • Giovanni Pico

  • Galileo

  • Nicolas Copernicus

Answer

Manutius had many friends in Rome, including Giovanni Pico, who was a humanist philosopher, and Cardinal Bessarion, who was a Greek scholar and prelate. These friends helped Manutius to establish his printing press in Rome and to publish many important works of literature.
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