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Extremely rare edition of one of the most influential humanistic educational treatises
VEGIO, Maffeo.De liberorum educatione aurei libri sex noviter recogniti Francisci Philelphi. poete. Oratoris, philosophique prestantissimi. Succincto cum iudice (sic): et brevibus marginariis annotationibus obscurarum sensa dictionum aperientibuc. Nicolai Bonespei trecensis campani cura superadditis.   Paris, 'apud Gourmontios' (= Robert, Gilles and Jean Gourmont), 1508. Small 4to (19x13cm.) Full nineteenth century blind tooled calf in a 'Medieval style' with three central vertical rolls on sides. 128, (6) ff. First edition published in France of an important and influential pedagogical work by Maffeo Vegio (1406-1458). Vegio was an Italian churchman, humanist, poet and educator who studied philosophy at the University of Pavia, later changing to jurisprudence and finally to letters, which always had been one of his favorite subjects. He was passionately devoted to the ancient Latin poets, especially to Virgil, and he became an enthusiastic promotor of the revival of letters in fifteenth century Italy. Through his devotion to Augustine, however, Vegio was later attracted to the Augustinians and joined the order. The present book, usually published under the title De educatione liberorum et eorum claris moribuso, was for a long time ascribed to the famous Italian humanist and Neolatin poet Francesco Filelfi. It is Vegio's most important and well-known treatise on the education of children and their moral foundation, composed in six books. The first three treat of the duties of parents and teachers in education; the last three of the duties of youth to God, to their fellow-men, and themselves, of the several virtues, good manners, the use of time, etc. The work has the distinction of being the most Christian in spirit of all humanistic educational treatises. It approves the study of pagan literature only in conjunction with sacred learning, the study of the Scriptures and the Fathers, makes provision for the education of girls and considers the formation of a sound moral and Christian character to be the supreme end of education. Many editions of the work have appeared, the latest at Tournai in 1854. The editio princeps was printed in 1491 in Milan. A French translation under the title Guidon des parents en l'instruction et direction de leurs enfants was published by Gilles de Gourmont in 1513. Three Gourmont brothers were active at the same time as printers, all three living in Paris: Robert (active 1498-1518), Gilles (1499-1533) and Jean (1506-1522). Sometimes they worked together, as for example with this present edtion, and sometimes individually. This edition of Vegio's educational work was edited by Nicolas Dupuy under the pseudonym 'Nicolas Bonaspes'. After the title follows a dedicatory poem bij 'Bonaspes', dated Paris, 1508, on p. 1v, and after the text of book 1-6 (p. 2r-128r) a Tabula, poems to the parentes iuventutis (parents of the youth), and on this edition, a vita of Francesco Filelfo and his son Mario, and a quotation of Quintilianus on the 6 unnumered leaves. Good and attractive copy of this very rare edition in an interesting imitation binding, with some contemporary manuscript annotations and a mysterious inscription in Greek on the title 'KI ET IFE KIESET'. - (Some faint soiling throughout; upper right hand corner of some leaves stained).
Horkan, Educational theories and principles of Maffeo Vegio (1953); A. Franzoni, L'opera pedagogica di Maffeo Vegio (Lodi 1907); modern edition with commentary: Maffeo Vegio, De liberorum educatione et eorum claris moribus libri sex. Eds. Maria Walburg Fanning (bk. I-III) & Anna Stanislaus Sullivan (bk. IV-VI). 2 vols. Washington 1933-36 (Theses Cath. Univ. Washington); not in Adams or STC French, only one copy in NUC and in the Bibl. Nat. in Paris.
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