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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483719803321

Autore

Goeing Anja-Silvia

Titolo

Summus Mathematicus et Omnis Humanitatis Pater : The Vitae of Vittorino da Feltre and the Spirit of Humanism / / by Anja-Silvia Goeing

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

94-007-7531-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Collana

Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, , 1385-0180 ; ; 33

Disciplina

001.3

Soggetti

History

Philology

Culture—Study and teaching

Cultural property

Education

History, general

Classical Studies

Regional and Cultural Studies

Cultural Heritage

Education, general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Sources on Vittorino da Feltre -- 3 Sassolo da Prato's Correspondence with Leonardo Dati, ca. 1443–1444 -- 4 The Concept of Education in the Second Generation of Vitae and Portraits of Vittorino Da Feltre -- 5 Between History and Praise: Approaches on Understanding Humanist Biographie -- 6 Appendix: The Letter Of Sassolo Da Prato About Vittorino; Translated into English by James Astorga -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book revises the picture of the teacher and educator of princes, Vittorino Rambaldoni da Feltre (c. 1378, Feltre -- 1446, Mantua), taking a completely new approach to show his work and life from the individual perspectives created by his students and contemporaries. From 1423 to 1446, Vittorino da Feltre was in charge of a school in Mantua, where his students included not only the offspring of Italy’s



princes, but also the first generation of authors dealing with books in print. Among his students were historians like Bartolomeo Sacchi (named Platina), who wrote an extensive history of the popes, and mathematicians like Jacopo Cassiano (Cremonensis), who translated the work of Archimedes from Greek into Latin. Vittorino is still regarded as the educationalist of Italian Renaissance humanism per sé. This work not only contributes to the study of the history of Italian humanist institutions, it also uses available sources to demonstrate the development of a new attitude to education in Italy.