Sandys, John Edwin. Harvard lectures on the revival of learning. [**]$1.50. Macmillan.
Lectures which discuss various aspects of the revival of learning under the titles—Petrarch and Boccaccio, The age of discoveries, The theory and practice of education, The academies of Florence, Venice, Naples, and Rome, The homes of humanism, The historian of Ciceronianism, The study of Greek.
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