Summus Mathematicus et Omnis Humanitatis Pater The Vitae of Vittorino da Feltre and the Spirit of Humanism /

• Main Author: Goeing, Anja-Silvia (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 33
• Subjects: History.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Cultural heritage.; Philology.; Education.; History, general.; Classical Studies.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Cultural Heritage.; Education, general.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Sources on Vittorino da Feltre
• 3 Sassolo da Prato's Correspondence with Leonardo Dati, ca. 1443–1444
• 4 The Concept of Education in the Second Generation of Vitae and Portraits of Vittorino Da Feltre
• 5 Between History and Praise: Approaches on Understanding Humanist Biographie
• 6 Appendix: The Letter Of Sassolo Da Prato About Vittorino; Translated into English by James Astorga
• References
• Index.