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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Paul F. GrendlerPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780801891717ISBN 10: 080189171 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 21 September 2009 Recommended Age: From 17 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Abbreviations Values of Some Coins and Monies of Account ca. 1625 1. The Place and the People I. The Duchy of Mantua II. The Economy and the People III. Monferrato IV. Jesuit Attempts to Enter Italian Universities 2. The Jesuits Come to Mantua I. The Founding of the Jesuit College II. Blessed Luigi Gonzaga III. Growth of the College and School 3. Ferdinando Gonzaga and the Jesuits Create a University I. University Dreams II. Gonzaga Support of Learning III. The Education of Ferdinando Gonzaga IV. Duke Ferdinando Gonzaga V. The Jesuit Part of the University VI. The Public Academy of Mantua 4. Doctor Marta I. Early Life and Works II. Ecclesiastical and Civil Jurisdiction III. A Spy for James I IV. The Supplicatio ad imperatorem . . .contra Paulum Quintum V. Was Doctor Marta a Doctor? VI. The Compilatio totius iuris ex universi orbis VII. The Move to Mantua 5. Fabrizio Bartoletti and Other Professors I. Fabrizio Bartoletti II. The Encyclopaedia hermetico-dogmatica III. The Courting of Bartoletti IV. More Searches 6. The Peaceful University of Mantua I. Final Preparations and Crises II. Finances III. The Pacifico Gymnasio Mantuano Begins IV. Students 7. Medicine, Law, and Tacitus I. Botanical Medicine II. Chemical Medicine III. Bartoletti's Research on Angina Pectoris IV. Law Professors and Marta's Research V. The Tacitus Professorship 8. The Jesuit Professorships I. The Jesuit Curriculum and Teaching II. The Career Paths of Jesuits and Lay Professors III. Two Academic Cultures 9. The End of the University of Mantua I. The Crisis of the Mantuan Succession II. The Contenders III. War, Plague, and the Sack of Mantua IV. The Imprisonment and Death of Doctor Marta V. The End of the University of Mantua VI. After the Sack Appendix: Jesuit Professors at Mantua, 1624–1630 Bibliography IndexReviewsDoes a university that lasted only six years deserve a full-length academic study? In this case, the answer is clearly yes... Highly recommended. Choice 2010 Not only is this the first study of the university, but the deepest study of the relationship between an Italian family and the university it founded. - Kathleen Comerford, Georgia Southern University Author InformationPaul F. Grendler is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Toronto and former president of the Renaissance Society of America. He is the editor-in-chief of the prize-winning Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and author of nine books, including Schooling in Renaissance Italy and The Universities of the Italian Renaissance, both winners of the American Historical Association's Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History and both published by Johns Hopkins. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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