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Vittorino Da Feltre and other Humanist Educators
About this book
Imagine an age when education was reshaping the human spirit. In Vittorino da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators, Woodward transports you into the first flowering of the Italian Renaissance, where schooling was not just instruction, but a moral and cultural rebirth.
At the heart of this book is Vittorino da Feltre — teacher, mentor, innovator. In Mantua, he founded La Casa Gioiosa (the House of Joy), where nobles and orphans studied side by side, sharing lessons in Latin, Greek, music, athletics, and virtue. He believed the ideal pupil was a balanced person — body, mind, and character in harmony.
Woodward doesn't stop there. He brings forward four foundational treatises by Vergerio, Bruni, Aeneas Sylvius (later Pope Pius II), and Guarino — retranslated into English — so you can see how thinkers of the time argued for liberal education, eloquence, and moral formation.
 The final section is Woodward's own reflective overview, positioning humanist schools not merely as relics of the past but as living models — education as moral formation, as a bridge between antiquity and modern life. This book remains a touchstone for readers who want to feel the Renaissance—not just study it.Â
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- INTRODUCTION.
- VITTOTINO DA FELTRE: AUTHORITIES
- VITTORINO DA FELTRE.
- THE TREATISE DE INGENUIS MORIBUS BY PETRUS PAULUS VERGERIUS.
- P. P. VERGERIUS TO UBERTINUS OF CARRARA.
- THE TRACTATE OF LIONARDO BRUNI D’AREZZO, DE STUDIIS ET LITERIS.
- LIONARDO D’AREZZO. CONCERNING THE STUDY OF LITERATURE,—A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS LADY, BAPTISTA MALATESTA.
- THE TREATISE OF AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI, AFTERWARDS PIUS II.
- THE TREATISE OF BATTISTA GUARINO, DE ORDINE DOCENDI ET STUDENDI.
- BATTISTA GUARINO TO MAFFEO GAMBARA, OF BRESCIA, CONCERNING THE ORDER AND THE METHOD TO BE OBSERVED IN TEACHING AND IN READING THE CLASSICAL AUTHORS.
- A REVIEW OF THE EDUCATIONAL AIMS AND METHODS OF THE FIRST CENTURY OF HUMANISM.
- TITLES OF WORKS QUOTED AND REFERRED TO.