Schooling in Renaissance Italy
Subtitle: Literacy and Learning, 1300-1600 (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 1, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780801842290
Subjects: Educational systems; European history: c 500 to c 1500; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 1500 to c 1600; History: World; History - General History; Italy; Europe - Italy; History; Renaissance; History / Europe / General
First sentence: Let those men teach boys who can do nothing greater, whose qualities are plodding diligence, a rather dull mind, a muddled intellect, ordinary talent, cold-bloodedness, a body tolerant of labor, and a mind contemptuous of glory, desirous of petty gains, and indifferent to boredom....