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Summus Mathematicus et Omnis Humanitatis Pater

The Vitae of Vittorino da Feltre and the Spirit of Humanism

Authors:

  1. Anja-Silvia Goeing

    1. Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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  • Includes as appendix one translated original Renaissance biography
  • Closes a research gap between humanist educational treatises and experienced humanist classroom practice
  • Provides background information about the first printed mathematics editions
  • Includes bibliography and index that helps researchers to find their way into topics of Renaissance learning and the beginning of print culture

Part of the book series: Archimedes (ARIM, volume 33)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Anja-Silvia Goeing
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Sources on Vittorino da Feltre

    • Anja-Silvia Goeing
    Pages 13-55

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 155-176
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About this book

This book revises the picture of the teacher and educator of princes, Vittorino Rambaldoni da Feltre (c. 1378, Feltre -- 1446, Mantua), taking a completely new approach to show his work and life from the individual perspectives created by his students and contemporaries. From 1423 to 1446, Vittorino da Feltre was in charge of a school in Mantua, where his students included not only the offspring of Italy’s princes, but also the first generation of authors dealing with books in print. Among his students were historians like Bartolomeo Sacchi (named Platina), who wrote an extensive history of the popes, and mathematicians like Jacopo Cassiano (Cremonensis), who translated the work of Archimedes from Greek into Latin. Vittorino is still regarded as the educationalist of Italian Renaissance humanism per sé. This work not only contributes to the study of the history of Italian humanist institutions, it also uses available sources to demonstrate the development of a new attitude to education in Italy.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    Anja-Silvia Goeing

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Summus Mathematicus et Omnis Humanitatis Pater

  • Book Subtitle: The Vitae of Vittorino da Feltre and the Spirit of Humanism

  • Authors: Anja-Silvia Goeing

  • Series Title: Archimedes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7531-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7530-5Published: 06 November 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7860-2Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7531-2Published: 24 October 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1385-0180

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0064

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 176

  • Topics: History, general, Classical Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies, Cultural Heritage, Education, general

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