'The humanist idea of education is among the permanently
influential legacies of the Italian Renaissance. Four short Latin
treatises published between 1400 and 1460 define it admirably: Pier
Paolo Vergerio's De ingenuis moribus et liberalibus adolescentiae
studiis; Leonardo Bruni's De studiis et literis; the De liberorum
educatione of Aeneas Sylvius, who later became Pope Pius II; and
Battista Guarino's De ordine docendi et studendi. Translated into
English by William Harrison Woodward and framed, on the one hand,
by his description of the famous school founded by Vittorino da
Feltre in 1424 at the court of Gianfrancesco Gonzaga, marquis of
Mantua, and, on the other, by a judiciously balanced analysis of
the aims and methods of the humanist educators, these important
texts form the heart of a book that has remained for almost seventy
years the fundamental study of early Renaissance educational theory
and practice.'
From the foreword by Eugene F. Rice Jr.
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