Expansion of trade, growth of prosperity and luxury, and widening social contacts
generated interest in worldly pleasures, in spite of formal allegiance to ascetic
Christian doctrine. Men thus affected -- the humanists -- welcomed classical writers who
revealed similar social values and secular attitudes.
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