Publisher's Synopsis
Books and schools were the foundation of the intellectual life of the Italian Renaissance. To study them, therefore, can give a clear insight into the culture of the period, both popular and learned, as is shown in this collection of articles.;The opening studies examine popular works - in terms of physical appearance as well as content - then present accounts of Aldus Manutius (who abandoned teaching to become the leading scholarly publisher of the era) and of the libraries in which such books have been preserved (for instance, those of Erasmus). The following section deals with schooling, in the vernacular and in Latin, and looks in particular at the organization and curriculum of catechism schools, and the books they used. The final study then examines the background to the emergence of the University of Padua as the leading university of Europe.
