Learning through Images Italian Renaissance Illustrated Manuscrip… 9781108491044

Learning through Images in the Italian RenaissanceIllustrated Manuscripts and Education in Quattrocento Florence\nAuthor(s): Federico Botana\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108491044, 978-1108491044\nSynopsis\nFor the affluent merchant class of fifteenth-century Florence, the education of future generations was a fundamental matter. Together with texts, images played an important role in the development of the young into adult citizens. In this book, Federico Botana demonstrates how illustrated manuscripts of vernacular texts read by the Florentine youth facilitated understanding and memorisation of basic principles and knowledge. They were animportant means of acquiring skills then considered necessary to gain the respect of others, to prosper as merchants, and to participate in civic life. Botana focuses on illustrated texts that were widely read in Quattrocento Florence: theFior di virt(a m.