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Schooling in Renaissance Italy

Literacy and Learning, 1300-1600

By: Paul F. Grendler

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Paperback | 14 May 1991

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List of Illustrations	p. xiii
List of Tables	p. xv
Preface	p. xvii
Note on Quotations and Translations	p. xix
Abbreviations	p. xxi
Teachers and Pupils
The Organization of Schooling	p. 3
The Medieval Background	p. 3
The Decline of Church Schools	p. 6
Schools in the Trecento	p. 11
Communal Latin Schools	p. 13
Communal Abbaco Schools	p. 22
Elementary and Secondary Teachers on University Rolls	p. 23
Independent Schools	p. 29
Academic Calendar and Corporal Punishment	p. 34
The Lives of Teachers	p. 36
Venetian Schools in the High Renaissance	p. 42
Schooling and Literacy in 1587	p. 42
Curricula	p. 47
Teachers	p. 51
Church Schools	p. 56
Sestiere Schools	p. 61
Florentine and Roman Schools in the High Renaissance	p. 71
Villani's Statistics of 1338	p. 71
Florentine Schooling in 1480	p. 74
Roman Schools	p. 78
Communal Supervision of Roman Schools	p. 83
Girls and Working-Class Boys in School	p. 87
What Should Girls Learn?	p. 87
Female Teachers	p. 90
Female Pupils	p. 93
Working-Class Schoolboys	p. 102
The Latin Curriculum
The Coming of the Studia Humanitatis	p. 111
The Late Medieval Latin Curriculum	p. 111
The Humanistic Alternative	p. 117
The Rediscovery of Cicero	p. 121
Greek	p. 124
Three Famous Teachers	p. 125
The Establishment of the Studia Humanitatis	p. 133
Learning the ABCs with Hornbook and Primer	p. 142
Tavola and Salterio	p. 142
Learning to Read	p. 156
Grammar	p. 162
The Medieval Grammatical Tradition	p. 163
The Beginning of Renaissance Grammar	p. 166
Grammar Manuals in the Classroom	p. 172
Ianua	p. 174
Donatus melior, Donato al senno, and Vernacular Latin Grammars	p. 182
The Renaissance Grammatical Tradition	p. 188
Grammatical Drill and Elementary Reading	p. 194
Rhetoric	p. 203
The Advanced Humanistic Curriculum	p. 203
From Medieval to Renaissance Rhetoric	p. 205
Cicero	p. 212
The Epistulae ad familiares as Prose Model	p. 217
Learning to Write like Cicero	p. 222
Words and Things	p. 229
Rhetoric and Life	p. 233
The Rest of the Latin Curriculum	p. 235
Poetry	p. 235
Poetry in the Classroom	p. 240
The Paraphrase-Commentary	p. 244
Terence, Horace, and Ovid	p. 250
History	p. 255
Caesar, Sallust, and Valerius Maximus in the Classroom	p. 258
Moral Philosophy	p. 263
Greek and Logic	p. 265
The Vernacular Curriculum
Italian Literature	p. 275
Religious Texts	p. 278
Chivalric Romances	p. 289
The Vita di Marco Aurelio of Guevara	p. 300
Learning Merchant Skills	p. 306
Abbaco	p. 306
Abbaco Classroom Instruction	p. 311
Double-Entry Bookkeeping	p. 319
Writing	p. 323
The Schools of the Catholic Reformation
The Schools of Christian Doctrine	p. 333
Reading and Writing	p. 338
The Summario	p. 343
The Interrogatorio	p. 345
Other Texts	p. 353
High and Low in the Catechism Schools	p. 356
The Religious Knowledge of the Laity	p. 359
The Schools of the Religious Orders	p. 363
Jesuit Schools	p. 363
Schoolmasters to the Elite	p. 372
The Jesuit Curriculum	p. 377
The Scuole Pie	p. 381
The Schools of the Old Regime	p. 390
The Role of the Church	p. 398
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Schooling in Renaissance Italy

Literacy and Learning, 1300-1600

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