TY - BOOK AU - Goeing,Anja-Silvia ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Summus Mathematicus et Omnis Humanitatis Pater: The Vitae of Vittorino da Feltre and the Spirit of Humanism T2 - Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, SN - 9789400775312 AV - D1-DX301 U1 - 900 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Dordrecht PB - Springer Netherlands, Imprint: Springer KW - Humanities KW - History KW - Regional planning KW - Humanities / Arts KW - Humanities, general KW - Classical Studies KW - Regional and Cultural Studies KW - Cultural Heritage KW - Education (general) N1 - Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Sources on Vittorino da Feltre -- 3 Sassolo da Prato's Correspondence with Leonardo Dati, ca. 1443–1444 -- 4 The Concept of Education in the Second Generation of Vitae and Portraits of Vittorino Da Feltre -- 5 Between History and Praise: Approaches on Understanding Humanist Biographie -- 6 Appendix: The Letter Of Sassolo Da Prato About Vittorino; Translated into English by James Astorga -- References -- Index N2 - This book revises the picture of the teacher and educator of princes, Vittorino Rambaldoni da Feltre (c. 1378, Feltre -- 1446, Mantua), taking a completely new approach to show his work and life from the individual perspectives created by his students and contemporaries. From 1423 to 1446, Vittorino da Feltre was in charge of a school in Mantua, where his students included not only the offspring of Italy’s princes, but also the first generation of authors dealing with books in print. Among his students were historians like Bartolomeo Sacchi (named Platina), who wrote an extensive history of the popes, and mathematicians like Jacopo Cassiano (Cremonensis), who translated the work of Archimedes from Greek into Latin. Vittorino is still regarded as the educationalist of Italian Renaissance humanism per sé. This work not only contributes to the study of the history of Italian humanist institutions, it also uses available sources to demonstrate the development of a new attitude to education in Italy UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7531-2 ER -