Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typ...os. Excerpt from book: THE TREATISE DE INGENUIS MORIBUS BY PETRUS PAULUS VERGERIUS. Vergerius has been referred to above, p. 14 seqq., in connection with Humanism at Padua during the period when Vittorino da Feltre was residing there. Vergerius was born at Capo d' Istria in 1349: after spending some years at Padua he removed to Florence, where he taught Logic, and studied Civil and Canon Law. In 1391 we find him again in Padua, as 'Doctor Artium," as 'Doctor Medi- cinae,'2 and as professor of Logic3. In his teaching of this latter subject he has broken away from scholastic method, and already gives evidence of an essentially modern treatment of Dialectic, in which he was followed by Vittorino4. But he had already at Florence, if not earlier, imbibed the full Humanist enthusiasm. In I3925, or soon after, he composed the Treatise De ingenuis moribus, for the use of Ubertinus,son of Francesco Carrara, the lord of Padua. This work, which has been too much overlooked by later students of the Renaissance1, was for a century and a half after its appearance amongst the most widely read of all the productions of the Revival of Letters. In the sixteenth century it was diligently studied in schools, as Paulus Jovius2 records. Bembo prized it as 'digna philosopho,' Sabellico finds it 'gravissimis respersa sententiis, utpote qui philosophiae prius operam dedit quam ad scribendum venisset.' Brucker is 1 Gloria, Man. Pad. ii. 491. 3 Ibid. 3 Ibid., p. 493. But Voigt (i. 432) is wrong in saying that he taught at Padua between July 1397 and June 1400: his name never occurs during those years in the University records. Gloria, ii. 492. 4 Supra, p. 60. See the important letter in Prof. Combi, Epist. Verg. p. 10o and Gloria, ii. 493. 5 The date fixed by the allusion of Vergerius to the battle of Brescia, ...Detailed info »« Brief info