Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 181 mm x 256 mm, Gewicht: 816 g
Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 181 mm x 256 mm, Gewicht: 816 g
ISBN: 978-1-108-49104-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
For the affluent merchant class of fifteenth-century Florence, the education of future generations was a fundamental matter. Together with texts, images played an important role in the development of the young into adult citizens. In this book, Federico Botana demonstrates how illustrated manuscripts of vernacular texts read by the Florentine youth facilitated understanding and memorisation of basic principles and knowledge. They were an important means of acquiring skills then considered necessary to gain the respect of others, to prosper as merchants, and to participate in civic life. Botana focuses on illustrated texts that were widely read in Quattrocento Florence: the Fior di virtù (a moral treatise including a bestiary), the Esopo volgarizzato (Aesop's Fables in Tuscan), the Sfera by Goro Dati (a poem on cosmology and geography), and mathematical manuals known as libri d'abbaco. He elucidates, in light of original sources and medieval and modern cognitive theory, the mechanisms that empowered illustrations to transmit knowledge in the Italian Renaissance.
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Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Editorial note; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Two youths; 3. Mental images; 4. Virtues, sins, and the senses in the fior di virtù; 5. Serving the state in the fior di virtù; 6. Dealing with others in the esopo volgarizzato; 7. The flesh in the fior di virtù and the esopo volgarizzato; 8. Mathematics, body, form, and metaphor in libri d'abbaco; 9. The cosmos in goro dati's sfera; 10. Navigation and geography in the sfera; 11. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.