The Reformation and Education (1520-1648) (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Reformation and Education (1520-1648) As water seeks its level, as the needle seeks the pole, so genius instinctively seeks the company of genius, and it is no matter of surprise to find that under such favorable in¿uences, fos tered with little interruption, for wellnigh a century, Christian learning should have ¿owered to its mightiest in the7~immortal personages of an Angelo, a Raphael, a Titian, or a Fra Angelico. Painting and sculpture and architecture thrilled to a new life. In literature especially was the prog ress marked. The classics, Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew, were sought out, translated, pondered, and imitated. Prose works were multi plied. Poetry in particular was car ried to a marvelous degree of refine ment in the case of some, the music of whose rhythmic productions still sounds like a lost chord caught from the majestic harmonies of a Virgil a Theocritus, or a Homer. Fogg1o, Valla and Alberti, Guarino, Aurispa, and Filelfo, Pomponius Laetus, Syl vins, and Platina, Tortello and De cembrio Cuot to mention othe? Are names immediately suggestiv of a literary polish the like of which the world had never seen on such a ma g nificent scale since the days of Peri cles and Augustus. All in all, this revival, so popular and so rapid, was a wide-spread one, whose growth, upon the lines sanctioned by Nicholas and not a few of his successors, would have led in due season to incalcuable and none but beneficial results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.