grocyn

Updated: June 14, 2025

Though through Grocyn, Linacre and Tunstall, Greek was better taught in England than in Italy, according to Erasmus, at the time Henry VIII. came to the throne, the idea of Italy as the goal of scholars persisted.

Clare Howard - English Travellers of the Renaissance

Grocyn frankly blurted out the true reason for Warham's economy in his shrewd suspicion that this was not the first dedication that had been prefixed to the 'Hecuba, and it is likely enough that the Primate's suspicion was right.

John Richard Greene - Stray Studies from England and Italy