Pier Paolo Vergerio (c. 1370-1444) was an important humanist of the early Italian Renaissance. His educational treatise, De ingenuis moribus , was the most influential Renaissance work on education before Erasmus. His comic play, the Paulus , written in the 1390s, is the earliest extant Latin humanist comedy, a genre that combined elements of Roman and contemporary comedy. It is a cautionary tale about the dangers of wild living for a student of the liberal arts. This book features the first English translation of the ...
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Pier Paolo Vergerio (c. 1370-1444) was an important humanist of the early Italian Renaissance. His educational treatise, De ingenuis moribus , was the most influential Renaissance work on education before Erasmus. His comic play, the Paulus , written in the 1390s, is the earliest extant Latin humanist comedy, a genre that combined elements of Roman and contemporary comedy. It is a cautionary tale about the dangers of wild living for a student of the liberal arts. This book features the first English translation of the Paulus . Preceding the translation is a thorough biography of Vergerio. Background material on the play's date and on staging the play is also included.
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