Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Editorial note regarding citations from manuscripts and publications -- A note on chronological terminology -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Italian Renaissance education: an historiographical perspective -- CHAPTER 2 The elementary school curriculum in medieval and Renaissance Italy: traditional methods and developing texts -- DOCTORES PUERORUM -- TABULA, CARTA, SALTERIUM -- IANUA -- Ianua: its origins and early character -- Ianua's early prevalence in Italy -- Other early manuscripts of Ianua: the character and development of the text before the fifteenth century -- The later development of Ianua -- CHAPTER 3 The secondary grammar curriculum -- THE ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL BACKGROUND -- THE TWELFTH CENTURY AND THE INVENTION OF SECONDARY GRAMMAR -- THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY AND THE EMERGENCE OF A DISTINCTIVE ITALIAN APPROACH -- Tebaldo -- THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY AND THE RISE OF THE VERNACULAR -- THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY: AN ERA OF FAILED REFORM -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 4 Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance Italian schools: the story of a canon -- MAJOR AND MINOR AUTHORS -- THE DARK AGES: DECLINE AND RENAISSANCE OF THE CLASSICS -- THE TENTH AND ELEVENTH CENTURIES: THE ASCENDANT CLASSICS -- THE TWELFTH CENTURY: THE CLASSICAL APOGEE -- THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY: REVOLUTION -- THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY: COUNTER-REVOLUTION -- THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY: TENACIOUS TRADITIONS AND NEW FASHIONS -- The minor authors -- Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy -- The Latin classics -- The late fifteenth century and the triumph of humanism -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 5 Reading Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance Italian schools -- GLOSSING BETWEEN THE LINES: THE STRUGGLING PUPIL -- The role of the vernacular -- Word order -- Interlinear Latin synonyms -- Grammatical analysis.

GLOSSING IN THE MARGINS: THE TRIUMPH OF PHILOLOGY OVER MORALITY -- Rhetorical figures -- Grammar -- Mnemonic verses -- Geography -- History -- Mythology -- Paraphrase -- Authorities -- Introductory philosophy -- Introductory rhetorical analysis -- Introductory and accompanying material -- Probationes pennae, drawings and colophons -- Accessus -- Metric analysis -- Sententiae -- Allegory -- SCHOOL GLOSSES AND LEARNED COMMENTARIES: TRADITION AND ADAPTATION IN READING BOETHIUS'S CONSOLATION -- CHAPTER 6 Rhetoric and style in the school grammar syllabus -- THE SECONDARY SYLLABUS AS AN INTEGRATED CURRICULUM -- GRAMMAR AND RHETORIC -- RHETORIC AND STYLE IN THE ITALIAN GRAMMAR SYLLABUS BEFORE THE RENAISSANCE: THE FORCE OF TRADITION -- RHETORIC AND STYLE IN THE GRAMMAR CURRICULUM DURING THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY: INNOVATION TRIUMPHANT -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX I BL Harley 2653: the earliest known manuscript of Ianua -- APPENDIX II A handlist of manuscripts of Ianua -- APPENDIX III Manuscripts of Tebaldo's Regule -- APPENDIX IV Handlist of manuscripts of school authors produced in Italy and now found in Florentine libraries -- FLORENCE, ARCHIVIO DI STATO -- FLORENCE, BIBLIOTECA DEL SEMINARIO MAGGIORE -- FLORENCE, BIBLIOTECA MEDICEA LAURENZIANA -- ACQUISTI E DONI -- ASHBURNHAM -- CONVENTI SOPPRESSI -- EDILI -- PLUTEI -- REDI -- RINUCCINI -- SAN MARCO -- STROZZI -- FLORENCE, BIBLIOTECA NAZIONALE CENTRALE -- FONDO PRINCIPALE -- FONDO BANCO RARI -- FONDO CONVENTI SOPPRESSI -- FONDO LANDAU FINALY -- FONDO MAGLIABECHIANO -- FONDO MAGLIABECHIANO APPENDICE -- FONDO NUOVE ACCESSIONI -- FONDO PALATINO -- FONDO PALATINO-BALDOVINETTI -- FONDO PANCIATICHIANO -- FLORENCE, BIBLIOTECA RICCARDIANA -- MANUSCRIPTS EXAMINED AND EXCLUDED -- FLORENCE, ARCHIVIO DI STATO -- FLORENCE, BIBLIOTECA MEDICEA LAURENZIANA -- FLORENCE, BIBLIOTECA MARUCELLIANA -- FLORENCE, BIBLIOTECA MORENIANA.

FLORENCE, BIBLIOTECA NAZIONALE CENTRALE -- FLORENCE, BIBLIOTECA RICCARDIANA -- APPENDIX V Theoretical grammar manuscripts in Florentine libraries examined and included or eliminated as Italian school… -- MANUSCRIPTS INCLUDED AS ITALIAN SCHOOL GRAMMARS -- FLORENCE, ARCHIVIO DI STATO -- FLORENCE, BIBLIOTECA MEDICEA LAURENZIANA -- FLORENCE, BIBLIOTECA MARUCELLIANA -- FLORENCE, BIBLIOTECA MORENIANA -- FLORENCE, BIBLIOTECA NAZIONALE CENTRALE -- FLORENCE, BIBLIOTECA RICCARDIANA -- MANUSCRIPTS ELIMINATED AS ITALIAN SCHOOL GRAMMARS -- FLORENCE, BIBLIOTECA MEDICEA LAURENZIANA -- FLORENCE, BIBLIOTECA MARUCELLIANA -- FLORENCE, BIBLIOTECA NAZIONALE CENTRALE -- BIBLIOTECA RICCARDIANA -- APPENDIX VI Authorities cited explicitly in manuscripts of major school authors in Florentine libraries -- BML -- BNCF -- BRF -- Bibliography -- Index of manuscripts -- General index.