Humanism, Universities, and Jesuit Education in Late Renaissance Italy

✍ Scribed by Paul F. Grendler

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 532
• Series: History of Early Modern Educational Thought, 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An authoritative account of the intellectual and educational history of the late Italian Renaissance. Twenty essays on major themes, institutions, and persons of the Italian Renaissance by one of its most distinguished living historians.

✦ Table of Contents

Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1 Humanism
Chapter 1 Humanism: Ancient Learning, Criticism, Schools, and Universities
1 The Historiography of Humanism
2 Classical Learning and Criticism
3 Schools and Universities
Chapter 2 Georg Voigt: Historian of Humanism
1 Education and Career
2 Die Wiederbelebung
3 Influence
4 Conclusion
Chapter 3 Italian Biblical Humanism and the Papacy 1515–1535
1 Four Christian Hebraists
2 Two Curial Cardinals
3 The Role of the Papacy
4 Conclusion
Chapter 4 Education in the Republic of Venice
1 Medieval Background
2 The Renaissance Expansion of Schooling
3 Catholic Reformation Schooling
4 The Reforms of the 1770s
5 Jewish Schooling
6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 5 The Humanistic Gymnasium from Humboldt to Kristeller
1 Bildung and the Humanistic Gymnasium
2 Paul Oskar Kristeller at the Mommsen Gymnasium
3 Conclusion
Part 2 Universities
Chapter 6 Paul Oskar Kristeller on Renaissance Universities
1 Early Interest in Universities
2 Publications 1945 through 1956
3 A Book on the “Intellectual History of the Italian Universities to 1600”
4 “The Curriculum of the Italian Universities”
5 Debates with Other Scholars
6 Theology in Italian Universities
7 The University of Heidelberg
8 Other Studies
9 Conclusion
Chapter 7 Studies on the Italian Universities of the Renaissance: An Unpublished Work of Paul Oskar Kristeller. Introduced and Edited by Paul F. Grendler
Studies on the Italian Universities of the Renaissance
i The Problem and Its Scope
Appendix 2: Some Recent Bibliography on Italian Universities of the Renaissance
Chapter 8 Italian Universities and War 1494–1630
1 The University of Pavia and War
2 The Movements of Professors and Students Because of War
3 Conclusion
Chapter 9 Gasparo Contarini and the University of Padua
Bibliography
Chapter 10 Fencing, Playing Ball, and Dancing in Italian Renaissance Universities
1 The Students
2 Lo scolare of Annibale Roero
3 Fencing
4 Playing Ball
5 Dancing
6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 11 On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Italian Universities
1 Conclusion
Chapter 12 Giacomo Antonio Marta: Antipapal Lawyer and English Spy 1609–1618
1 Civil and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
2 A Spy for James i
3 The Supplicatio ad imperatorem … contra Paulum Quintum
4 Conclusion
Chapter 13 Apostolici Regiminis Sollicitudo: Italian Preachers Defend the Immortality of the Soul
1 Apostolici Regiminis Sollicitudo
2 The Italian University Response
3 Preachers Against False Philosophy: Cornelio Musso
4 Franceschino Visdomini and Girolamo Seripando
5 Francesco Panigarola
6 Conclusion
Part 3 Jesuit Education
Chapter 14 Laínez and the Schools in Europe
1 Before 1556
2 Growth of the Schools
3 The Teacher Shortage
4 The Schools Are the Most Important Ministry
5 The Formula for Accepting Colleges
6 Other Actions
7 Conclusion
Chapter 15 Philosophy in Jesuit Schools and Universities
1 The Development of the Philosophical Cursus
2 Teachers and Schools
3 Conflicts with Universities
Chapter 16 The Culture of the Jesuit Teacher 1548–1773
1 All Jesuits Will Teach
2 Leader and Manager of the Classroom
3 The Culture of Competition
4 Jesuit Civic Humanism
5 Teacher of the Elite
6 The Jesuit Teacher Cares for Poor and Weak Students
7 Conclusion
Chapter 17 The Attitudes of the Jesuits toward Juan Luis Vives
1 Ignatius of Loyola and Vives
2 After Ignatius
3 Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 18 The Attitudes of the Jesuits toward Erasmus
1 Should Jesuit Schools Teach the Works of Erasmus?
2 The Generalate of Diego Laínez 1556–1565
3 After the Indexes
4 The Final Destination of the Works of Erasmus
5 Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 19 Fifteenth-Century Catechesis, the Schools of Christian Doctrine, and the Jesuits
1 Youth Confraternities Teaching Christian Doctrine in the Fifteenth Century
2 Fifteenth-Century Catechisms
3 The Milanese Schools of Christian Doctrine
4 The Missing Jesuits
5 Jesuit Catechesis
6 Conclusion
Chapter 20 The Jesuit Education of Benedetto Pamphilj at the Collegio Romano
Index