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During this time the Renaissance education throughout Europe went through a major change. In the middle to late 15th century the educational values were focused on the liberal arts. By the late 17th century the educational values had transformed into teaching more career oriented skills. The reformation began around the late 1500’s when the people in Europe began realizing that it was more important to have skills that benefit the community as a whole, not just skills that benefit the person such as the liberal arts. The 1400s to the 1550s were a time in the Renaissance when the humanists were influencing the education in Europe. Because Battista Guarino was an Italian humanist educator, it was natural for him to believe that the learning of the liberal arts and virtues were, “activities proper to mankind. ” (Doc. 2) Piccolomini, also being an Italian humanist, would obviously stress, “the importance of the study of philosophy and letters. ” (Doc. 1) Baldassare Castiglione, and Italian diplomat and author, may have been influenced by his Italian views when explaining how the ideal Renaissance man, “should be passably learned in the humanities and should also be practiced in writing verse and prose.