Part 25 (1/2)

12 Compare the financial support of the Revival in Italy with the support of universities and of scientific undertakings in A-delayed interest in the Revival in the northern countries

14 Trace the larger steps in the transference of Greek literature and learning from Athens, in the fifth century BC, to its arrival at Harvard, in Massachusetts, in 1636

15 What was the importance of the rediscovery of Hebrew?

16 Sho the invention of printing was a revolutionary force of the first nitude

17 Why should a license from the Church have been necessary to print a book? Have we any rees of this church control over books?

18 Do you see any special reason why Venice should have become the early center of the book trade?

19 Sho the printing-press became ”a forreatest instruress and liberty”

20 One writer has characterized the Revival of Learning as the beginnings of the eence of the individual from institutional control, and the substitution of the humanities for the divinities as the basis of education Is this a good characterization of a phase of theeach edition of a printed book at only three hundred copies, how many volumes had been printed before 1500 at the places listed in footnote 3, page 257?

SELECTED READINGS

In the acco selections are reproduced:

125 Petrarch: On copying a Work of Cicero

126 Benvenuto: Boccaccio's Visit to the Library at Monte Cassino

127 Sy of Quintilian's _Institutes_ at Saint Gall

(a) Letter of Poggio Bracciolini on the ”Find”

(b) Reply of Lionardo Bruni

128 MS: Reproducing Books before the Days of Printing

129 Sy the Classics

130 Vespasiano: Founding of the Medicean Library at Florence

131 Vespasiano: Founding of the Ducal Library at Urbino

132 Vespasiano: Founding of the Vatican Library at Ro at Oxford

134 Green: The New Taste for Books

QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS

1 Is it probable that Petrarch's explanation (125) of why many of the older Latin books were copied so infrequently, psalters being preferred instead, is correct?

2 How do you explain the later neglect of so valuable a library as that at Monte Cassino (126) or Saint Gall (127 a)?

3 Was Lionardo Bruni's letter to Poggio (127 b) overdrawn?

4 Was there anything unnatural about the work and custo the classics (129)? Compare with a modern literary or scientific society, or with the National Dante Society

5 What does the extract froot books for Cosimo de' Medici (130), indicate as to the scarcity of books in Italy toward the middle of the fifteenth century?

6 The library of the Duke of Urbino (131) was the er classifications of the books copied, as to the lines represented in a great library of that day

7 What does the work of Pope Nicholas V, in establishi+ng the Vatican Library (132), indicate as to his interest in the new humanistic movement?