Humanist Educational Treatises

Name: Humanist Educational Treatises
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ISBN: 9780674030879

ISBN-10: 0674030877

ISBN-13: 9780674030879

Edition: 2008

Authors: Craig W. Kallendorf

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The 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 in the early fourteenth century. These educators 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 provides new translations, commissioned for the I Tatti Renaissance Library, of four of the most important theoretical statements that emerged from the early humanistsrsquo; efforts to reform medieval education: Pier Paolo Vergerio, ldquo;The…

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List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Craig W. Kallendorf is Professor of Modern and Classical Languages at Texas A & M University and the author of Vergil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance.



Introduction


Invectives against a Physician


Invective against a Man of High Rank with No Knowledge or Virtue


On His Own Ignorance and That of Many Others Invective against a Detractor of Italy


Note on the Texts and Translations


Notes


Bibliography


Index