In 1510 the young Augustinian hermit monk Martin Luther was sent on mission and pilgrimage to papal Rome. Sick, he spent some time in the exceptionally scientific hospital of rich Florenz, the banking-rich center of the Christian world for creativity and art, starring Michelangelo (then in Rome), Raffael, Botticelli who set new standards for aesthetics as men like Da Vinci for empirical science. They introduced a focus on the individual, humanism, in a medieval world obsessed with the afterlife, where heretics were burnt at the stake. Rome was wrecked and being ...