Complete the sentence about Leuven with the correct year: Thomas More published his Utopia at Dirk Martens printing house in Leuven in ______.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. 1516
Leuven drew humanists and printers in the early 16th century. Thomas More had his famous Utopia published at the printing house of Dirk Martens in Leuven in 1516, a year before the Collegium Trilingue was founded in that city.
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