Скачать или смотреть Medicine and the Birth of Humanist Education: Vergerio’s ‘De Ingenuis Moribus’ - H. Schadee

In this Lecture, Prof. Schadee brings us back to the origin of medical humanism in Renaissance Italy. Sixteenth-century ‘medical humanism’ is a much-studied phenomenon, and the contributions of fourteenth-century physicians to the liberal arts are undisputed. However, less attention has been paid to the interaction of medicine and humanism in the Quattrocento. Yet the earliest and most widely-circulated humanist educational treatise was written by a medical doctor: Pier Paolo Vergerio’s 'De ingenuis moribus' (c. 1403).

This lecture uncovers the medical dimension of Vergerio’s thought and shows how his Aristotelian-Galenism – no less than Cicero or Quintilian – informs his notions of childhood, education, and the liberal arts themselves. Prof. Schadee argues that features of his text now deemed typical of a ‘humanistic’ or ‘liberal’ education (such as its emphasis on individuality and on learning for pleasure) are, in fact, reflections of contemporary Medicine. Furthermore, the lecture embeds Vergerio in the intellectual context of the court of Francesco Novello da Carrara of Padua, a city famous for its medical faculty.