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Learning through Images in the Italian Renaissance - Illustrated Manuscripts and Education in Quattrocento Florence (Hardcover)
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Learning through Images in the Italian Renaissance - Illustrated Manuscripts and Education in Quattrocento Florence (Hardcover)
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For the affluent merchant class of fifteenth-century Florence, the
education of future generations was a fundamental matter. Together
with texts, images played an important role in the development of
the young into adult citizens. In this book, Federico Botana
demonstrates how illustrated manuscripts of vernacular texts read
by the Florentine youth facilitated understanding and memorisation
of basic principles and knowledge. They were an important means of
acquiring skills then considered necessary to gain the respect of
others, to prosper as merchants, and to participate in civic life.
Botana focuses on illustrated texts that were widely read in
Quattrocento Florence: the Fior di virtu (a moral treatise
including a bestiary), the Esopo volgarizzato (Aesop's Fables in
Tuscan), the Sfera by Goro Dati (a poem on cosmology and
geography), and mathematical manuals known as libri d'abbaco. He
elucidates, in light of original sources and medieval and modern
cognitive theory, the mechanisms that empowered illustrations to
transmit knowledge in the Italian Renaissance.
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