To what extent can one speak of the 'Renaissance' in terms of grammar: did the medieval curricular subject grammatica survive into the Renaissance unchanged or was it transformed by the pedagogical program of the humanists? The studies collected here focus on this question and trace the development of humanistic approaches to grammar. The first section consists of essays on the general characteristics of grammar in the period and on its connections with rhetoric. The following parts are devoted to three major grammatical writers: Guarino Veronese (1374-1460), Niccolò Perotti (1429/1430-1480), and Antonio de Nebrija (1441/1444?-1522). There is finally a section dealing with other figures, such as the famous Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457). I focus throughout on widely disseminated textbooks, beginning with the earliest attempt at a humanistic rejuvenation of grammar, the brief Regulae grammaticales of Guarino Veronese (c. 1418), followed by Perotti's comprehensive Rudimenta grammatices, published in 1473 by Rome's first printers, and finally Nebrija's commercially successful Introductiones Latinae (Salamanca, 1481). Nebrija's textbook proved the longest-lived, but Perotti's was also an international best-seller, going through many editions in several countries.
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VIII. "The Place of the Rudimenta grammatices in the History of Latin Grammar," Res Publica Litterarum, 4 (1981), 233-264.
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XII. "Italian Affiliations of Nebrija's Latin Grammar," Italia ed Europa nella linguistica del Rinascimento, Italy and Europe in Renaissance Linguistics, ed. Mirko Tavoni (Ferrara: Franco Cosimo Panini, 1996), vol. 1: L'Italia e il mondo romanzo, Italy and the Romance World, pp. 99-112.
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XIV. "Nebrija's Linguistic Oeuvre as a Model for Missionary Linguistics," Languages Different in All Their Sounds... Descriptive Approaches to Indigenous Languages of the Americas, 1500 to 1850, Studium Sprachwissenschaft, Beiheft 31, ed. Elke Nowak (Münster: Nodus Publikationen, 1999), pp. 15-29.
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XVI. "The Orthographia of Gasparino Barzizza," Problemi di edizione e di interpretazione nei testi grammaticali latini: Atti del Colloquio Internazionale, Napoli 10-11 dicembre 1991, ed. Luigi Munzi, Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, Dipartimento di Studi del Mondo Classico e del Mediterraneo Antico, Sezione filologico-letteraria, 14 - 1992 (Rome: Gruppo Editoriale Internazionale, 1994), pp. 263-282.
XVII. "Lorenzo Valla and the Criterion of Exemplary Usage," Res Publica Litterarum, 19 (1996), 133-152.