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.