Edited sentence: An academy is neither a school nor a university.But it is out of the medieval University that the Renaissance Man emerges to give life to the Academy.It would seem to be a thoroughly European concept and these institutions are located in every European country.Rather, it is an institution devoted to research or to the perfection of a particular art, chosen by the academy.The University as an institution of higher learning was founded during the Middle Ages, while the concept of the Academy grew out of Renaissance ideas.They are of fundamental importance in the development of the European mind.Yet, the Renaissance Academy echoes the Academy of classical antiquity, and especially the Platonic one