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Vittorino da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators

Vittorino da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators

'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.'

From the foreword by Eugene F. Rice Jr.

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As mentioned in:

  • Episode #18 – The Low-Down on Narration
  • Episode #20: Mothers, Don’t Let Your Methods Grow up to Be Systems (with Karen Glass) as Brandy Vencel’s Scholé Every Day pick
  • Episode #21 – Amusing Ourselves to Leisure
  • Episode #28 – Education is a Life
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Author: William Harrison Woodward
Tags: #18, #18 Scholé Everyday, #20, #20 Scholé Every Day, #21, #21 Topical Discussion, #28, #28 Topical Discussion, Brandy Vencel
ASIN: 0802071570
ISBN: 0802071570
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