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A Moral Art

Grammar, Society, and Culture in Trecento Florence
By:Paul F. Gehl
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Print ISBN:9780801428364
eText ISBN:9781501735394
Edition:0
Copyright:1993
Format:Page Fidelity

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Focusing on one distinctive element of the early Renaissance reading public—boys who studied Latin grammar in Florence—Paul F. Gehl sheds new light on the history of schooling in the West. Far from advancing the cause of humanism, he shows, the elementary grammar masters of fourteenth-century Florence worked against it in the name of morality.