The linguistic-cultural competition between Latin a Greek, a rhetorical topos as old as the communication between the two cultural areas, was rekindled in the fifteenth century, when, after the fall of Constantinople, Byzantine scholars fled to the West and sought to claim a share in the control and circulation of knowledge. The rhetorics surrounding the antagonism between the two languages ​​began as a discourse of salvation (a culture to be rescued); as it moved north of the Alps and deeper into the sixteenth century, it evolved into a discourse for the salvation of the Reformed man (a culture that rescues).