“All learning in fact takes place within some kind of community, whether it be a formal place of instruction, a religious community, or simply an informal network of two or more friends”[1].

Which mechanisms favoured cultural exchanges in the 15th century, still linked to hand-copied books and the dawn of printing? What exactly is the relationship between cultural exchanges, network and community? What role did play not only humanists, but also religious and laymen, merchants, women, secretaries? What part did literary models and Latin texts have in these contexts?

These are some of the questions the project EuroCult (Cultural exchanges, network and community in early humanist Europe. The case of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini), intends to investigate and whose acronym wants to emphasize the European diffusion of the humanistic-Renaissance movement.