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Tables of Contents for Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
viii
 
List of abbreviations
x
 
Editorial note regarding citations from manuscripts and publications
xiii
 
A note on chronological terminology
xv
 
Introduction
1
11
Italian Renaissance education: an historiographical perspective
12
22
The elementary school curriculum in medieval and Renaissance Italy: traditional methods and developing texts
34
30
Doctores puerorum
34
2
Tabula, carta, salterium
36
8
Ianua
44
20
Ianua: its origins and early character
45
3
Ianua's early prevalence in Italy
48
2
Other early manuscripts of Ianua: the character and development of the text before the fifteenth century
50
5
The later development of Ianua
55
9
The secondary grammar curriculum
64
109
The ancient and medieval background
64
5
The twelfith century and the invention of secondary grammar
69
13
The thirteenth century and the emergence of a distinctive Italian approach
82
16
The fourteenth century and the rise of the vernacular
98
26
The fifteenth century: an era of failed reform
124
47
Conclusion
171
2
Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance Italian schools: the story of a canon
173
102
Major and minor authors
173
1
The Dark Ages: decline and renaissance of the classics
174
5
The tenth and eleventh centuries: the ascendant classics
179
6
The twelfth century: the classical apogee
185
7
The thirteenth century: revolution
192
8
The fourteenth century: counter-revolution
200
25
The fifteenth century: tenacious traditions and new fashions
225
50
The minor authors
225
11
Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy
236
2
The Latin classics
238
1
Lucan, Claudian, Seneca the Tragedian
239
1
Valerius Maximus, Statius and Horace
240
7
Ovid, Persius, Juvenal, Terence, Vergil and Sallust
247
15
Cicero
262
8
The late fifteenth century and the triumph of humanism
270
3
Conclusion
273
2
Reading Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance Italian schools
275
56
Glossing between the lines: the struggling pupil
275
11
The role of the vernacular
275
6
Word order
281
2
Interlinear Latin synonyms
283
2
Grammatical analysis
285
1
Glossing in the margins: the triumph of Philology over morality
286
39
Rhetorical figures
286
2
Grammar
288
2
Mnemonic verses
290
3
Geography
293
1
History
293
3
Mythology
296
2
Paraphrase
298
3
Authorities
301
3
Introductory philosophy
304
4
Introductory rhetorical analysis
308
3
Introductory and accompanying material
311
1
Probationes pennae, drawings and colophons
311
3
Accessus
314
4
Metric analysis
318
2
Sententiae
320
4
Allegory
324
1
School glosses and learned commentaries: Tradition and adaptation in reading Boethiu's Consolation
325
6
Rhetoric and style in the school grammar syllabus
331
38
The secondary syllabus as an integrated curriculum
331
5
Grammar and rhetoric
336
2
Rhetoric and style in the Italian grammar syllabus before the Renaissance: the force of tradition
338
11
Rhetoric and style in the grammar curriculum during the fifteenth century: innovation triumphant
349
17
Conclusion
366
3
Appendix I BL Harley 2653: the earliest known manuscript of Ianua
369
4
Appendix II A handlist of manuscripts of Ianua
373
6
Appendix III Manuscripts of Tebaldo's Regule
379
7
Appendix IV Handlist of manuscripts of school authors produced in Italy and now found in florentine libraries
386
40
Appendix V Theoretical grammar manuscripts in Florentine libraries examined and included or eliminated as Italian school grammars
426
2
Appendix VI Authorities cited explicitly in manuscripts of major school authors in Florentine libraries
428
7
Bibliography
435
21
Index of manuscripts
456
10
General index
466