Background
Grendler, Paul Frederick was born on May 24, 1936 in Armstrong, Iowa, United States. Son of August Paul and Josephine Lucy (Girres) Grendler.
( Italian Renaissance universities were Europe's intellec...)
Italian Renaissance universities were Europe's intellectual leaders in humanistic studies, law, medicine, philosophy, and science. Employing some of the foremost scholars of the time―including Pietro Pomponazzi, Andreas Vesalius, and Galileo Galilei―the Italian Renaissance university was the prototype of today's research university. This is the first book in any language to offer a comprehensive study of this most influential institution. In this magisterial study, noted scholar Paul F. Grendler offers a detailed and authoritative account of the universities of Renaissance Italy. Beginning with brief narratives of the origins and development of each university, Grendler explores such topics as the number of professors and their distribution by discipline, student enrollment (some estimates are the first attempted), famous faculty members, budget and salaries, and relations with civil authority. He discusses the timetable of lectures, student living, foreign students, the road to the doctorate, and the impact of the Counter Reformation. He shows in detail how humanism changed research and teaching, producing the medical Renaissance of anatomy and medical botany, new approaches to Aristotle, and mathematical innovation. Universities responded by creating new professorships and suppressing older ones. The book concludes with the decline of Italian universities, as internal abuses and external threats―including increased student violence and competition from religious schools―ended Italy's educational leadership in the seventeenth century.
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( One of the great European publishing centers, Venice pr...)
One of the great European publishing centers, Venice produced half or more of all books printed in Italy during the sixteenth-century. Drawing on the records of the Venetian Inquisition, which survive almost complete, Paul F. Grendler considers the effectiveness of censorship imposed on the Venetian press by the Index of Prohibited Books and enforced by the Inquisition. Using Venetian governmental records, papal documents in the Vatican Archive and Library, and the books themselves, Professor Grendler traces the controversies as the patriciate debated whether to enforce the Index or to support the disobedient members of the book trade. He investigates the practical consequences of the Index to printer and reader, noble and prelate. Heretics, clergymen, smugglers, nobles, and printers recognized the importance of the press and pursued their own goals for it. The Venetian leaders carefully weighed the conflicting interests, altering their stance to accommodate constantly shifting religious, political, and economic situations. The author shows how disputes over censorship and other press matters contributed to the tension between the papacy and the Republic. He draws on Venetian governmental records, papal documents in the Vatican Library, and the books themselves. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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(An engaging survey of the role of the university in Itali...)
An engaging survey of the role of the university in Italian Renaissance society. Grendler draws on his extensive knowledge of Renaissance education to show how Italian universities responded to cultural innovation. The universities adapted by securing a permanent role in the education of Italian elites while continuing to promote new forms of learning. Grendler's brief, elegant treatment includes sections on "Students," "Professors," "Medicine and Law," "Theology," and "Students Outside the Classroom."
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( One of the great European publishing centers, Venice pr...)
One of the great European publishing centers, Venice produced half or more of all books printed in Italy during the sixteenth-century. Drawing on the records of the Venetian Inquisition, which survive almost complete, Paul F. Grendler considers the effectiveness of censorship imposed on the Venetian press by the Index of Prohibited Books and enforced by the Inquisition. Using Venetian governmental records, papal documents in the Vatican Archive and Library, and the books themselves, Professor Grendler traces the controversies as the patriciate debated whether to enforce the Index or to support the disobedient members of the book trade. He investigates the practical consequences of the Index to printer and reader, noble and prelate. Heretics, clergymen, smugglers, nobles, and printers recognized the importance of the press and pursued their own goals for it. The Venetian leaders carefully weighed the conflicting interests, altering their stance to accommodate constantly shifting religious, political, and economic situations. The author shows how disputes over censorship and other press matters contributed to the tension between the papacy and the Republic. He draws on Venetian governmental records, papal documents in the Vatican Library, and the books themselves. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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( Universities were driving forces of change in late Rena...)
Universities were driving forces of change in late Renaissance Italy. The Gonzaga, the ruling family of Mantua, had long supported scholarship and dreamed of founding an institution of higher learning within the city. In the early seventeenth century they joined forces with the Jesuits, a powerful intellectual and religious force, to found one of the most innovative universities of the time. Paul F. Grendler provides the first book in any language about the Peaceful University of Mantua, its official name. He traces the efforts of Duke Ferdinando Gonzaga, a prince savant who debated Galileo, as he made his family’s dream a reality. Ferdinando negotiated with the Jesuits, recruited professors, and financed the school. Grendler examines the motivations of the Gonzaga and the Jesuits in the establishment of a joint civic and Jesuit university. The University of Mantua lasted only six years, lost during the brutal sack of the city by German troops in 1630. Despite its short life, the university offered original scholarship and teaching. It had the first professorship of chemistry more than 100 years before any other Italian university. The leading professor of medicine identified the symptoms of angina pectoris 140 years before an English scholar named the disease. The star law professor advanced new legal theories while secretly spying for James I of England. The Jesuits taught humanities, philosophy, and theology in ways both similar to and different from lay professors. A superlative study of education, politics, and culture in seventeenth-century Italy, this book reconsiders a period in Italy’s history often characterized as one of feckless rulers and stagnant learning. Thanks to extensive archival research and a thorough examination of the published works of the university's professors, Grendler's history tells a new story.
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(Books and schools were the foundation of the intellectual...)
Books and schools were the foundation of the intellectual life of the Italian Renaissance. To study them, therefore, can give a clear insight into the culture of the period, both popular and learned, as is shown in this collection of articles. The opening studies examine popular works - in terms of physical appearance as well as content - then present accounts of Aldus Manutius (who abandoned teaching to become the leading scholarly publisher of the era) and of the libraries in which such books have been preserved (for instance, those of Erasmus). The following section deals with schooling, in the vernacular and in Latin, and looks in particular at the organization and curriculum of catechism schools, and the books they used. The final study then examines the background to the emergence of the University of Padua as the leading university of Europe.
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(Few eras took education so seriously or were so innovativ...)
Few eras took education so seriously or were so innovative in their approaches to schools and universities as the Renaissance. At the same time, religious and political concerns strongly influenced educational developments. This third volume of articles by Paul F. Grendler explores the close connections between education, religion, and politics at several levels and in different contexts. It combines detailed research into various kinds of schools with broad overviews of European and especially Italian education. The lead article compares Italian and German universities and assesses the impact of the Protestant Reformation on the latter. Even Erasmus, the great critic of university theologians, felt the need to acquire a doctorate in theology and did so. In Italy, the new schools of the Jesuits and the Piarists taught boys and young men gratis, but not without opposition. Two articles deal with students, the consumers of education. While teachers and students were most directly involved in schools and universities, ecclesiastical and political authorities, including the leaders of the Republic of Venice, the subject of the final study, kept a watchful eye on them.
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Grendler, Paul Frederick was born on May 24, 1936 in Armstrong, Iowa, United States. Son of August Paul and Josephine Lucy (Girres) Grendler.
Bachelor, Oberlin College, 1959; Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1964.
Lecturer history, U. Pittsburgh, 1963-1964; lecturer history, U. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1964-1965; assistant professor, U. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1965-1969; associate professor, U. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1969-1973; professor, U. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1973-1998; professor emeritus, 1998; postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Research in Humanities, University of Wisconsin, 1967-1968.
( One of the great European publishing centers, Venice pr...)
( One of the great European publishing centers, Venice pr...)
( Italian Renaissance universities were Europe's intellec...)
(Few eras took education so seriously or were so innovativ...)
(Books and schools were the foundation of the intellectual...)
(An engaging survey of the role of the university in Itali...)
( Universities were driving forces of change in late Rena...)
(Book by Grendler, Paul F.)
Member Renaissance Society of America (vice president 1991-1992, president 1992-1994), American History Association, American Catholic History Association (president 1984), American Philosophical Society, Society Italian History Studies (senior scholar citation 1998. Vice president 2001-2003, president 2003-2005).
Married Marcella T. McCann, June 16, 1962. Children: Peter, Jean.