VII: Barzizza's Household School in Padua
R. G. G. Mercer
From The Teaching of Gasparino Barzizza: With Special Reference to his Place in Paduan Humanism (1979), pp. 106-17, doi:10.59860/td.c057703
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| Part of the book: The Teaching of Gasparino Barzizza R. G. G. Mercer MHRA Texts and Dissertations 10 Modern Humanities Research Association Abstract. Following a common practice of masters in medieval universities Barzizza ran a boarding house and private school or, as he called it, a gymnasium. It was not unlike the hospices found in Bologna in the same period, the halls and hostels in Oxford and Cambridge, or the pedagogies in Paris. Since it was a private school there survive no official records of the numbers of pupils, but from references in Barzizza's letters, from a few university documents, and from occasional signatures in manuscripts, we know of about seventy pupils between 1407 and 1421. Given that the pupils stayed on average between three and five years, it would be reasonable to guess that there were at least twenty pupils in the gymnasium at any given time. Full text. This contribution is published as Open Access and can be downloaded as a PDF, or viewed as a PDF in your web browser, here: |