Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy - Arts and Medicine At the University of Bologna

A longstanding tradition holds that universities in early modern Italy suffered from cultural sclerosis and long-term decline. Drawing on rich archival sources, including teaching records, David Lines shows that one of Italy's leading institutions, the University of Bologna, displayed remarkable vitality in the arts and medicine.

About the author

David A. Lines is Professor of Renaissance Philosophy and Intellectual History at the University of Warwick, where he is Director of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. He is the author of Aristotle’s Ethics in the Italian Renaissance (ca. 1300–1650): The Universities and the Problem of Moral Education.

Summary

A longstanding tradition holds that universities in early modern Italy suffered from cultural sclerosis and long-term decline. Drawing on rich archival sources, including teaching records, David Lines shows that one of Italy’s leading institutions, the University of Bologna, displayed remarkable vitality in the arts and medicine.

Product details

• Authors: David A. Lines, Lines David A.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2023
• EAN: 9780674278424
• ISBN: 978-0-674-27842-4
• No. of pages: 560
• Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Bologna, European History, EDUCATION / History, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, History of art / art & design styles, History of Medicine, History of Art, History of Education, universities, Higher education, tertiary education, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance