Vittorino Da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators; Essays and Versions

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In this difference is implied a constant process in which the ideal of the greater Humanists was Slowly narrowed and hardened till it reaches the pedantry which rouses the scorn of Montaigne. It is not merely that the Latinity Of Vergerius or Guarino was freer and less artificial, nor that with them literature was something more than a sequence of model passages: the scholars Of the first half Of the Quattrocento had a far broader grasp Of the true content of education, and with it a more sincere conception of the relation between the antique and the modern world.