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Vittorino da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators

Vittorino da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators

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Series: Rsart: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text, Book 5

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0802071570
ISBN13: 9780802071576
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 21 1996
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.14
Language: English

'The humanist idea of education is among the permanently influential legacies of the Italian Renaissance. Four short Latin treatises published between 1400 and 1460 define it admirably: Pier Paolo Vergerio's De ingenuis moribus et liberalibus adolescentiae studiis; Leonardo Bruni's De studiis et literis; the De liberorum educatione of Aeneas Sylvius, who later became Pope Pius II; and Battista Guarino's De ordine docendi et studendi. Translated into English by William Harrison Woodward and framed, on the one hand, by his description of the famous school founded by Vittorino da Feltre in 1424 at the court of Gianfrancesco Gonzaga, marquis of Mantua, and, on the other, by a judiciously balanced analysis of the aims and methods of the humanist educators, these important texts form the heart of a book that has remained for almost seventy years the fundamental study of early Renaissance educational theory and practice.'

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