Schooling in Renaissance Italy: Literacy and Learning, 1300-1600

by Paul F. Grendler

Book by Grendler, Paul F.

Genres: History, Education, Renaissance, Nonfiction

504 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[Piper Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I used this book in a research paper on Renaissance education. This book shows the transition from medieval education to humanistic education and how they were being taught in classrooms. It is interesting to read because so much of it still applies today.

[Victoria · Rating 3 out of 5]

Unbelievably tedious, but provides a broadly synthetic account of education in the Renaissance, revaluing humanism as an educational approach rather than a moral philosophy. Would be improved with a more complicated examination of what is meant by "literacy", and possibly by the use of fewer extraneous words.