The Universities of the Italian Renaissance

Grendler, Paul F.

ISBN 10: 0801866316 / ISBN 13: 9780801866319

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2002

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8vo., 592pp. Beautiful First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence Bound in blue cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with a touch of wear at the spine ends but minor. Small name written on front end-paper. Very attractive unclipped, though unpriced, dust-jacket has some trivial edge-wear but is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A sharp collectable copy at a great price.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Universities of the Italian Renaissance
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801866316
• ISBN 13: 9780801866319
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • World History

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Synopsis

Winner of the Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History from the American Historical AssociationSelected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003

Italian Renaissance universities were Europe's intellectual leaders in humanistic studies, law, medicine, philosophy, and science. Employing some of the foremost scholars of the time―including Pietro Pomponazzi, Andreas Vesalius, and Galileo Galilei―the Italian Renaissance university was the prototype of today's research university. This is the first book in any language to offer a comprehensive study of this most influential institution.

In this magisterial study, noted scholar Paul F. Grendler offers a detailed and authoritative account of the universities of Renaissance Italy. Beginning with brief narratives of the origins and development of each university, Grendler explores such topics as the number of professors and their distribution by discipline, student enrollment (some estimates are the first attempted), famous faculty members, budget and salaries, and relations with civil authority. He discusses the timetable of lectures, student living, foreign students, the road to the doctorate, and the impact of the Counter Reformation. He shows in detail how humanism changed research and teaching, producing the medical Renaissance of anatomy and medical botany, new approaches to Aristotle, and mathematical innovation. Universities responded by creating new professorships and suppressing older ones. The book concludes with the decline of Italian universities, as internal abuses and external threats―including increased student violence and competition from religious schools―ended Italy's educational leadership in the seventeenth century.

About the Author

Paul F. Grendler is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Toronto and former president of the Renaissance Society of America. He is the editor-in-chief of the prize-winning Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and author of nine books, including Schooling in Renaissance Italy and The Universities of the Italian Renaissance, both winners of the American Historical Association's Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History and both published by Johns Hopkins.