HIS243H1 Lecture Notes - Scholasticism, Leonardo Bruni, Quintilian
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Use of intellect, wit, etc. , will outwit fortune. The argument was fortune v. virt , so fortune is feminine fickle, Indecisive, etc. v. virt is masculine [intellect, wit, activeness, improvement of one self, striving for success] Literature: poetry to recover past experiences, human experience, emotion, biography, moral philosophy. Grammar: the art of writing correctly, latin grammar (valla, writing like cicero. Bureaucrats (called secretaries) people who kept secrets. Humanist trained secretaries possessed superior knowledge and could make important decisions, so gained high positions (chancellor, letter writers, etc. ) Chancellors headed the chancellery (where letters were written) At the time of the fight with milan, chancellor was leonardo bruni: poggio bracciolini (1380-1459) Becomes one of the key manuscript hunters of the 15th c. and discovers many of the key manuscripts that were used in st. gall. Becomes chancellor of florence and writes history of florence: isotta nogarda (1418 1466) Educated at her mother"s with her sister.
