The Universities of the Italian Renaissance

Paul Grendler's fine book now holds an honoured and helpful place on my study shelf devoted to medieval and Renaissance university histories (the 1936 Rashdall, Cobban, Courtenay, Stone, De Ritter-Symoens, Gabriel, Verger, the multiple volumes on Oxford and Cambridge, all of Emden's essential prosopographics, et al.). It is a worthy addition. Part I surveys the founding and early centuries of all the Italian universities, from Bologna and Padua to Messina and Parma. Here Grendler is understandably focused on ‘institutional history’, with one synthetic chapter on ‘The University in Action’, not really a social history, but on the internal functioning of university life, degree-granting, etc. Part II covers ‘Teaching and Research’, divided by individual faculties. Part III describes the ‘Recessional’ of these universities in the seventeenth century. A 52-page Bibliography is appended. It is no dishonour that Grendler was the third choice to write this book (following Paul Kristeller and

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