Humanist educational treatises
By: edited and translated by Craig W. Kallendorf.
Contributors: Kallendorf, Craig.
Series: The I Tatti Renaissance library -- 5
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Education, Humanistic -- Italy; Education -- Italy -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources; Renaissance -- Italy
Genres: Sources.
Description: "The cycle of disciplines now known as the humanities emerged in their modern form during the Italian Renaissance as the result of an educational movement begun by humanist teachers, writers, and scholars of the early Quattrocento. The movement argued for the usefulness of classical literature as an instrument for training young men and women, not only in the arts of language and eloquence, but also in civic virtue and practical wisdom. This volume contains four of the most important theoretical statements that emerged from the early humanists' efforts to reform medieval education."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-350) and index.
Table of contents: title: The character and studies befitting a free-born youth / Pier Paolo Vergerio; title: The study of literature / Leonardo Bruni; title: The education of boys / Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini; title: A program of teaching and learning / Battista Guarino.