The Concept of Education in the Second Generation of Vitae and Portraits of Vittorino da Feltre

摘要: This chapter uses Sassolo da Prato’s concept of education as a starting point for discussing the alterations that appeared in second generation vitae and portraits Vittorino Feltre. These texts present slightly different versions Vittorino; an obvious question is whether these changes were result philosophical developments taking place fifteenth-century Italy. Renaissance Florence was city ferment; addition to unabated assimilation writings Aristotle, larger schools thought from antiquity being consciously adopted brought into line, more or less, with Christian context, as, example, happened neo-Platonism. The embedding philosophy theology, tradition primarily carried forward by university institutions had its obverse dogmatic church theologians, ended advance studia humanitatis resulting secular philosophy. Here we should note there within which led thinking about mankind his relation world. included observance movements Franciscans Dominicans, Bernardino Siena Antoninus Florence; humanist Ambrogio Traversari Pius II, observations on nature Nicholas Cusa; finally adoption Greek scholarship transmitted through Eastern Church.