The learned men of Greece, driven from their country by the Turkish invasion, were scattered over Europe, and contributed not a little to the extension of the love of letters.

The discovery of the mariner's compass and improvements in nautical astronomy, also opened new sources of knowledge and of wealth, and the human mind all over Europe commenced a new start in the career of civilization.

Men of letters began to share in those honors which heretofore had belonged exclusively to men of war; and the arts of peace began to claim consideration with those who had been accustomed to respect only the science of destruction.
Maximilian was at Innspruck when he received intelligence of the death of his father.

He commenced his reign with an act of rigor which was characteristic of his whole career.

A horde of Turks had penetrated Styria and Carniola, laying every thing waste before them as far as Carniola.