Based on the study of over 500 surviving manuscript school books, this comprehensive 2001 study of the curriculum of school education in medieval and Renaissanc

Traces the intellectual life of Italy, where humanism began a century before it influenced the rest of Europe.

An authoritative account of the intellectual and educational history of the late Italian Renaissance. Twenty essays on major themes, institutions, and persons o

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The updated second edition of a highly readable synthesis of the major determining features of the Renaissance.