Schooling in Renaissance Italy: Literacy and Learning, 1300-1600 (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)

Teachers And Pupils. The Organization Of Schooling ; Venetian Schools In The High Renaissance ; Florentine And Roman Schools In The High Renaissance ; Girls And Working-class Boys In School -- The Latin Curriculum. The Coming Of The Studia Humanitatis ; Learning The Abcs With Hornbook And Primer ; Grammar ; Rhetoric ; The Rest Of The Latin Curriculum -- The Vernacular Curriculum. Italian Literature ; Learning Merchant Skills -- The Schools Of The Catholic Reformation. The Schools Of Christian Doctrine ; The Schools Of The Religious Orders -- Conclusion. The Role Of Education In The Italian Renaissance. Paul F. Grendler. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 431-461. 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....