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Vittorino da Feltre was an Italian educator who is frequently considered the greatest humanist schoolmaster of the Renaissance.
Vittorino da Feltre was an Italian humanist and teacher.

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Vittorino da Feltre

Also known as Vittorino de' Rambaldoni; Humanist, scholar, and educator; b. Feltre, Italy, 1378; d. Mantua, 1446. In 1396 Vittorino entered the University of Padua, an institution famed not only in Italy, but beyond the Alps. He was associated with Padua as student and teacher for nearly 20 years. During this period, he studied grammar and Latin letters with Gasparino Barzizza, the greatest Latin scholar of the age, as well as dialectic, philosophy, rhetoric, and Canon Law. After receiving his doctorate, he obtained private instruction in mathematics and Greek, and soon became known for his knowledge of mathematical and literary subjects. His attractive personality made him one of the outstanding scholars in Padua. As his fame grew steadily, his teaching was much in demand. A competent scholar and an exemplary Catholic layman, he continually tried to harmonize Christian principles with ancient learning. More than any other humanist, he helped to systematize the new studies.

Vittorino opened a private school in Padua and, in 1422, accepted the chair of rhetor

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Vittorino da Feltre

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(VITTORINO DE' RAMBALDONI).

Humanist educator, b. at Feltre, 1378; d. at Mantua, 1446. He was the son of Bruto de' Rambaldoni, a notary, but is best known by the surname of Feltre. Vittorino entered the University of Padua in 1396, attended the courses of Gasparino da Barzizza and Giovanni da Ravenna in grammar and Latin letters, and studied philosophy and perhaps theology. As a student he supported himself by tutoring. After obtaining the doctorate he studied mathematics under Pelacani da Parma, serving meanwhile as a famulus in the professor's household. Soon his fame as a teacher of mathematics surpassed his master's. He spent eighteen months studying Greek under Guarino da Verona, his fellow-student at the University of Padua, and then the best Greek scholar in Italy. Afterwards Vittorino opened a private school at Padua, and in 1422, upo

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Born at Feltre, in the mountains north of Venice, the son of Ser Bruto de' Rambaldoni, he pursued university studies at Padua despite financial hardships, and had as his mentors such notable scholars as Vergerio and Guarino. Without pretending to the scholarly attainments of his teachers, he fully absorbed their ideas about education, which stressed the stylistic and moral qualities of Greek and Roman literature, the importance of combining intellectual prowess with physical fitness and the need for a familiarity with the polite customs and graces of the time. The wealthy burghers and the cultivated courtly circles of the northern Italian city-states found this new educational ethos congenial and sought to attract the major humanist teachers to their service. Vittorino, after a brief period teaching rhetoric at Padua, accepted an invitation from Gianfrancesco Gonzaga in 1423 to establish a school at Mantua for his sons and those of his principal courtiers. Faithful to his own less privileged origins, Vittorino opened his school also to poor boys, from whom he demanded no payment.