Peter Burke's attempt to prove that there was such thing as creative adaptation involved a number of sources of ranging views. Francis 1st who was an admirer of adapting Italian ideas hired a sculptor called Cellini. Cellini was asked to make a saltcellar, which when completed made Francis furious as Cellini had only used Italian ideas. "I consider how you have neglected my wishes and worked for the fulfilment of your own, therefore do your up most to obey my commands". Desiderous Erasmus was the model Northern humanist of his time. He began spending a good deal of time...
doesn't prove that Italian art saved Italy as this is very unlikely. Bruni's view of Florence already shows a factor of biasness as he is the Chancellor of Florence and therefore is a big believer in Italian greatness. Overall all the sources show dissimilar views on whether Renaissance ideas were spread by creative adaptation or not. Of course the sources could not suggest a difference between this as there was no such term as 'creative adaptation'. These sources can therefore only be used to prove how much adaptation there was at the time by the use of reliability. .