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Venetian Schools and Teachers Fourteenth to Early Sixteenth Century: A Survey and a Study of Giovanni Battista Egnazio

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James Bruce Ross
James Bruce Ross*
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What do we know about the education of boys and young men in Venice in this period? Who dispensed instruction, who received it, and who paid for it? What intellectual baggage did the élite of the young Venetian patricians take with them to the Studium of Padua, the sole center of advanced learning sanctioned by the Serenissima? No comprehensive answer to these questions exists, and most of the scholarly essays concerning Venetian education appeared in the learned journals of Italy many decades ago. For the benefit of future inquirers into this obscure and confusing subject it may be useful to survey the major contributions of Italian scholars from the notes of Bartolomeo Cecchetti in 1886 to the essays of the late Bruno Nardi, and to include some current additions to the subject made by Italian and American scholars incidental to more specialized studies.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , Winter 1976 , pp. 521 - 566
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1976 

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References

Bibliography

I. General (not including those reviewed in Part I of this essay).

II. Particular, concerning one or several teachers.

Battaglini, Angelo Della corte letteraria di Sigismondo Malatesta, in Basini Parmensis poetae Opera praestantiora, vol. II (Rimini, 1794), part 1, pp. 43–255.Google Scholar
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Geanakoplos, Deno J. Greek Scholars in Venice. Cambridge, Mass., 1962.Google Scholar
Giovio, Paolo Elogia virorum litteris illustrium. Basel, 1577. English translation by Gragg, Florence, An Italian Portrait Gallery, Boston, 1935 (half a dozen Venetian teachers are included but almost nothing is given about their teaching).Google Scholar
Gozzi, Gaspare ‘Sulla riforma degli studi’ (report of 1770), in Scritti, ed. Tommaseo, N.. 3 vols. Florence, 1849. Vol. II, pp. 297–333.Google Scholar
Molmenti, Pompeo ‘Le scuole sotto la Repubblica di Venezia,’ La Rassegna Nazionale, vol. cxvii (1901), pp. 623ff.Google Scholar
Molmenti, Pompeo ‘Le scuole a Venezia nell'età di mezzo,’ Rivista d'Italia, vol. xxiv (1921), fasc. iv, pp. 381–388.Google Scholar
Molmenti, Pompeo ‘Le scuole di Venezia e lo studio di Padova nel Rinascimento,’ Rivista d'Italia, vol. xxv (1922), fasc. iv, pp. 361–369.Google Scholar
Paternoster, Paolo Le scuole pubbliche in Venezia ai tempi della Repubblica. Venice, 1884.Google Scholar
Pavanello, Giuseppe Un maestro del quattrocento (Giovanni Aurelio Augurello). Venice, 1905 (this rare item contains several long, valuable notes about masters at San Marco which I used in copies made at the British Museum).Google Scholar
Romanin, Samuele Storia documentata di Venezia, 10 vols. Venice, 1853-1861; reprint, 1912 (see vol. IV).Google Scholar
Sabbadrni, Remigio Le scoperte dei codici latinii e grec ne’ secoli XIV e XV. Florence, 1914; new ed. by E. Garin, Florence, 1967.Google Scholar
Zeno, Apostolo ‘Articolo XXI,’ Giornale de’ Letterati d'Italia, v (1711), 354–381 (a summary of what was then known, especially concerning patrician masters).Google Scholar
Agostinelli, L., and Benadduci, G. Biografia e bibliografia de G. M. Filelfo. Tolentino, 1899 (I have not seen).Google Scholar
Avesani, R. ‘Amaseo, Gregorio,’ D.B.I., 11, 654–660.Google Scholar
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Clough, Cecil H. ‘Becichemo, Marino,’ D.B.I., vii, 511–515.Google Scholar
Delia Torre, Arnaldo Di Antonio Vinciguerra e delle sue satire. Casciano, Rocca S., 1902 (concerning rivalries among G. M. Filelfo, Perleoni, Giorgio da Trebisonda and also data on Filippo da Rimini) (I have not seen).Google Scholar
Favre, Guillaume ‘Vie de Jean-Marius Philelfe,’ in Mélanges d'histoire littéraire. 2 vols. Geneva, 1856. Vol. 1, pp. 7–145 (concerning G. M. Filelfo, Perleoni, Giorgio da Trebisonda).Google Scholar
Foffano, Franceso ‘Marco Musuro professore di greco a Padova ed a Venezia,’ Nuovo Archivio Veneto, vol. iii (1892), pp. 453–474.Google Scholar
Gabboto, Ferdinando Ancora un ktterato del 1400. Città di Castello, 1890 (concerning Giorgio da Trebisonda) (I have not seen).Google Scholar
Gabboto, Ferdinando ‘Un nuovo contributo alla storia deH'umanesimo ligure,’ Atti della Società Ligure di storia patria, vol. xxiv (1892), pp. 5–323 (concerning rivalries among G. M. Filelfo and others).Google Scholar
Gabotto, Ferdinando, and Confalionieri, A. G. ‘Vita di Giorgio Merula,’ Rivista di storia, arte, archeologia della provincia di Alessandria, vol. II (1893), pp. 7–66, 281-356; vol. iii (1894), pp. 3-70, 151-175, 227-350 (I have not seen).Google Scholar
Agostini, Giovanni degli ‘Notizie istoriche spettanti alla vita e agli scritti di Batista Egnazio, sacerdote viniziano,’ in Raccolta d'opuscoli scientifici e filologici, ed. Calogerà, A., vol. xxxiii (Venice, 1745), pp. 1–191.Google Scholar
Agostini, Giovanni degli ‘Vettore Fausto,’ in Notizie istorico-critiche intorno le opere degli scrittori viniziani. 2 vols. Venice, 1752-1754. Vol. 11, pp. 448–472.Google Scholar
Heiberg, J. L. Beiträge zur Geschichte Georg Valla's und seiner Bibliothek. Leipzig, 1896 (XVI Beiheft, Centralblat für Bibliothekswesen, pp. 353-482) (the most complete and scholarly study of any teacher I have found).Google Scholar
Mioni, E. ‘Brugnoli, Benedetto,’ D.B.I., xiv, 501–503.Google Scholar
Rose, Paul L. ‘Humanist Culture and Renaissance Mathematics: The Italian Libraries of the Quattrocento,’ Studies in the Renaissance, xx (1973), 46–105 (re Valla, pp. 94-101).Google Scholar
Rose, P. L., and Drake, Stillman “The Pseudo-Aristotelian Questions in Mechanics in Renaissance Culture,’ ibid., xviii (1971), 65–104 (re Fausto, pp. 76-80).Google Scholar
Sabbadini, R. ‘Briciole umanistiche: v, Giorgio da Trebisonda, ‘Giornale storico della letteratura italiana, vol. xviii (1891), pp. 230–241; vol. XLIII (1904), pp. 253-254.Google Scholar
Sforza, G. ‘Della vita e delle opere di Gio. Pietro d'Avenza, grammatico del secolo XV,’ Atti e memorie della R R. Deputazioni di storia patria per le provincie Modenesi e Parmensi, vol. v (1868), pp. 393–411 (I have not seen).Google Scholar
Stabile, G. ‘Bragadin, Domenico,’ D.B.I., xiii, 668–669.Google Scholar
Tigerstedt, E. N. ‘Observations on the Reception of the Aristotelian Poetics in the Latin West,’ Studies in the Renaissance, xv (1968), 7–24 (re Valla, pp. 14-24).Google Scholar
Tonini, Carlo La cultura letteraria e sdentifice in Rimini. Rimini, 1884 (concerning Pietro Pierleoni) (I have not seen).Google Scholar
Venturi, A. ‘Bragadin, Franceso,’ D.B.I., xiii, 672–674.Google Scholar
Zeno, Apostolo Vita of Sabellico, in Degl'istorici delle cose veneziane, 10 vols. (Venice, 1718-1722), vol. 1, pp. xxix–lxxi.Google Scholar
Battaglini, Angelo Della corte letteraria di Sigismondo Malatesta, in Basini Parmensis poetae Opera praestantiora, vol. II (Rimini, 1794), part 1, pp. 43–255.Google Scholar
Cosenza, Mario Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary of the Italian Humanists and of the World of Classical Scholarship in Italy, 1300-1800. 2nd ed.; 6 vols. Boston, 1962-1967 (a photographic reproduction of notes on handwritten cards, not easy to use but valuable; vol. v contains a handy typed synopsis of the handwritten cards and a very brief bibliography).Google Scholar
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Vols. 1 to xviii (to ‘CAPPELLO’) completed by 1975 (an indispensable tool now rapidly coming out; hereafter cited as D.B.I.).Google Scholar
Foscarini, Marco Della letteratura veneziana libri otto. Padua, 1752; Venice, 1854.Google Scholar
Geanakoplos, Deno J. Greek Scholars in Venice. Cambridge, Mass., 1962.Google Scholar
Giovio, Paolo Elogia virorum litteris illustrium. Basel, 1577. English translation by Gragg, Florence, An Italian Portrait Gallery, Boston, 1935 (half a dozen Venetian teachers are included but almost nothing is given about their teaching).Google Scholar
Gozzi, Gaspare ‘Sulla riforma degli studi’ (report of 1770), in Scritti, ed. Tommaseo, N.. 3 vols. Florence, 1849. Vol. II, pp. 297–333.Google Scholar
Molmenti, Pompeo ‘Le scuole sotto la Repubblica di Venezia,’ La Rassegna Nazionale, vol. cxvii (1901), pp. 623ff.Google Scholar
Molmenti, Pompeo ‘Le scuole a Venezia nell'età di mezzo,’ Rivista d'Italia, vol. xxiv (1921), fasc. iv, pp. 381–388.Google Scholar
Molmenti, Pompeo ‘Le scuole di Venezia e lo studio di Padova nel Rinascimento,’ Rivista d'Italia, vol. xxv (1922), fasc. iv, pp. 361–369.Google Scholar
Paternoster, Paolo Le scuole pubbliche in Venezia ai tempi della Repubblica. Venice, 1884.Google Scholar
Pavanello, Giuseppe Un maestro del quattrocento (Giovanni Aurelio Augurello). Venice, 1905 (this rare item contains several long, valuable notes about masters at San Marco which I used in copies made at the British Museum).Google Scholar
Romanin, Samuele Storia documentata di Venezia, 10 vols. Venice, 1853-1861; reprint, 1912 (see vol. IV).Google Scholar
Sabbadrni, Remigio Le scoperte dei codici latinii e grec ne’ secoli XIV e XV. Florence, 1914; new ed. by E. Garin, Florence, 1967.Google Scholar
Zeno, Apostolo ‘Articolo XXI,’ Giornale de’ Letterati d'Italia, v (1711), 354–381 (a summary of what was then known, especially concerning patrician masters).Google Scholar
Agostinelli, L., and Benadduci, G. Biografia e bibliografia de G. M. Filelfo. Tolentino, 1899 (I have not seen).Google Scholar
Avesani, R. ‘Amaseo, Gregorio,’ D.B.I., 11, 654–660.Google Scholar
Castellani, Giorgio ‘Documenti veneziani inediti relativi a Francesco e Mario Filelfo,’ Archivio Storico Italiano, series v, vol. xvii (1896), pp. 364–370.Google Scholar
Castellani, Giorgio ‘Giorgio da Trebisonda, maestro di eloquenza a Vicenza ed a Venezia,’ Nuovo Archivio Veneto, vol. XI (1896), part 1, pp. 123–142.Google Scholar
Clough, Cecil H. ‘Becichemo, Marino,’ D.B.I., vii, 511–515.Google Scholar
Delia Torre, Arnaldo Di Antonio Vinciguerra e delle sue satire. Casciano, Rocca S., 1902 (concerning rivalries among G. M. Filelfo, Perleoni, Giorgio da Trebisonda and also data on Filippo da Rimini) (I have not seen).Google Scholar
Favre, Guillaume ‘Vie de Jean-Marius Philelfe,’ in Mélanges d'histoire littéraire. 2 vols. Geneva, 1856. Vol. 1, pp. 7–145 (concerning G. M. Filelfo, Perleoni, Giorgio da Trebisonda).Google Scholar
Foffano, Franceso ‘Marco Musuro professore di greco a Padova ed a Venezia,’ Nuovo Archivio Veneto, vol. iii (1892), pp. 453–474.Google Scholar
Gabboto, Ferdinando Ancora un ktterato del 1400. Città di Castello, 1890 (concerning Giorgio da Trebisonda) (I have not seen).Google Scholar
Gabboto, Ferdinando ‘Un nuovo contributo alla storia deH'umanesimo ligure,’ Atti della Società Ligure di storia patria, vol. xxiv (1892), pp. 5–323 (concerning rivalries among G. M. Filelfo and others).Google Scholar
Gabotto, Ferdinando, and Confalionieri, A. G. ‘Vita di Giorgio Merula,’ Rivista di storia, arte, archeologia della provincia di Alessandria, vol. II (1893), pp. 7–66, 281-356; vol. iii (1894), pp. 3-70, 151-175, 227-350 (I have not seen).Google Scholar
Agostini, Giovanni degli ‘Notizie istoriche spettanti alla vita e agli scritti di Batista Egnazio, sacerdote viniziano,’ in Raccolta d'opuscoli scientifici e filologici, ed. Calogerà, A., vol. xxxiii (Venice, 1745), pp. 1–191.Google Scholar
Agostini, Giovanni degli ‘Vettore Fausto,’ in Notizie istorico-critiche intorno le opere degli scrittori viniziani. 2 vols. Venice, 1752-1754. Vol. 11, pp. 448–472.Google Scholar
Heiberg, J. L. Beiträge zur Geschichte Georg Valla's und seiner Bibliothek. Leipzig, 1896 (XVI Beiheft, Centralblat für Bibliothekswesen, pp. 353-482) (the most complete and scholarly study of any teacher I have found).Google Scholar
Mioni, E. ‘Brugnoli, Benedetto,’ D.B.I., xiv, 501–503.Google Scholar
Rose, Paul L. ‘Humanist Culture and Renaissance Mathematics: The Italian Libraries of the Quattrocento,’ Studies in the Renaissance, xx (1973), 46–105 (re Valla, pp. 94-101).Google Scholar
Rose, P. L., and Drake, Stillman “The Pseudo-Aristotelian Questions in Mechanics in Renaissance Culture,’ ibid., xviii (1971), 65–104 (re Fausto, pp. 76-80).Google Scholar
Sabbadini, R. ‘Briciole umanistiche: v, Giorgio da Trebisonda, ‘Giornale storico della letteratura italiana, vol. xviii (1891), pp. 230–241; vol. XLIII (1904), pp. 253-254.Google Scholar
Sforza, G. ‘Della vita e delle opere di Gio. Pietro d'Avenza, grammatico del secolo XV,’ Atti e memorie della R R. Deputazioni di storia patria per le provincie Modenesi e Parmensi, vol. v (1868), pp. 393–411 (I have not seen).Google Scholar
Stabile, G. ‘Bragadin, Domenico,’ D.B.I., xiii, 668–669.Google Scholar
Tigerstedt, E. N. ‘Observations on the Reception of the Aristotelian Poetics in the Latin West,’ Studies in the Renaissance, xv (1968), 7–24 (re Valla, pp. 14-24).Google Scholar
Tonini, Carlo La cultura letteraria e sdentifice in Rimini. Rimini, 1884 (concerning Pietro Pierleoni) (I have not seen).Google Scholar
Venturi, A. ‘Bragadin, Franceso,’ D.B.I., xiii, 672–674.Google Scholar
Zeno, Apostolo Vita of Sabellico, in Degl'istorici delle cose veneziane, 10 vols. (Venice, 1718-1722), vol. 1, pp. xxix–lxxi.Google Scholar