1. Renaissance Education
... , an Italian diplomat and author, instructed modern Renaissance gentleman in The Book of the Courtier to become learned in a wide variety of subjects including the humanities, classical poetry, and in writing verse and prose. These Italian humanist views were echoed by northern Christian humanists such as Desiderus Erasmus who wrote in his book On the Art of Learning that students should ... prevailed until the end of the Renaissance period. For example, later in the sixteenth century, Anne Higginson wrote a letter that reflected the view that women's education consisted of reading and w...
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