Studies In Renaissance Grammar

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 programme 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, Niccol Perotti 1419/1420-1480, and Antonio de Nebrija 1441/1444?-1522,