Humanism and education in medieval and Renaissance Italy

tradition and innovation in Latin schools from the twelfth to the fifteenth century

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction I
I Italian Renaissance education: an historiographical perspective I2
2 The elementary school curriculum in medieval and
Renaissance Italy: traditional methods and developing texts 34
Doctores puerorum 34
Tabula, carta, salterium 36
lanua 44
lanua: its origins and early character 45
lanua's early prevalence in Italy 48
Other early manuscripts of lanua: the character and development of
the text before the fifteenth century 50
The later development of lanua 55
3 The secondary grammar curriculum 64
The ancient and medieval background 64
The twelfth century and the invention of secondary grammar 69
The thirteenth century and the emergence of a distinctive Italian approach 82
The fourteenth century and the rise of the vernacular 98
The fifteenth century: an era of failed reform 124
Conclusion '17
4 Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance Italian schools:
the story of a canon I73
Major and minor authors 173
The Dark Ages: decline and renaissance of the classics 174
The tenth and eleventh centuries: the ascendant classics 179
The twelfth century: the classical apogee 185
The thirteenth century: revolution
The fourteenth century: counter-revolution
The fifteenth century: tenacious traditions and new fashions
The minor authors
Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy
The Latin classics
Lucan, Claudian, Seneca the Tragedian
Valerius Maximus, Statius and Horace
Ovid, Persius,Juvenal, Terence, Vergil and Sallust
Cicero
The late fifteenth century and the triumph of humanism
Conclusion
5 Reading Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance
Italian schools
Glossing between the lines: the struggling pupil
The role of the vernacular
Word order
Interlinear Latin synonyms
Grammatical analysis
Glossing in the margins: the triumph of philology over morality
Rhetorical figures
Grammar
Mnemonic verses
Geography
History
Mythology
Paraphrase
Authorities
Introductory philosophy
Introductory rhetorical analysis
Introductory and accompanying material
Probationespennae, drawings and colophons
Accessus
Metric analysis
Sententiae
Allegory
School glosses and learned commentaries: tradition and adaptation in
reading Boethius's Consolation
6 Rhetoric and style in the school grammar syllabus
The secondary syllabus as an integrated curriculum
Grammar and rhetoric
Rhetoric and style in the Italian grammar syllabus before the
Renaissance: the force of tradition
Rhetoric and style in the grammar curriculum during the fifteenth
century: innovation triumphant
Conclusion
Appendix I BL Harley 2653: the earliest known manuscript
of Ianua
Appendix II - A handlist of manuscripts of Ianua
Appendix III Manuscripts of Tebaldo's Regule
Appendix IV Handlist of manuscripts of school authors
produced in Italy and now found in
Florentine libraries
Appendix V Theoretical grammar manuscripts in Florentine
libraries examined and included or eliminated as
Italian school grammars
Appendix VI Authorities cited explicitly in manuscripts of
major school authors in Florentine libraries
Bibliography
Index of manuscripts
General index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-455) and indexes.

Published in
Cambridge, UK, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
488/.0071/245
Library of Congress
PA2065.I7 B58 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 489 p. ;
Number of pages
489

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6789710M
Internet Archive
humanismeducatio00blac_829
ISBN 10
0521401925
LCCN
00050236
OCLC/WorldCat
45171999

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