Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Vittorino da Feltre, Roger Asham, Sir Thomas Eliot, Pius II, Hieronymus…
Vittorino da Feltre
His school
c. Guarded their diet.
d. Daily compulsory exercise.
b. Had regard for health and physical education.
e. Taught riding, fencing, archery, ball playing, wrestling, running, leaping, swimming,
and hiking.
a. Purred than to their lesson with kindness and understanding.
His aim of Physical Education
a. To discipline the body, to maintain health, and to be able to endure the riggers of
war, and that they became experts in the use of weapons.
b. Discovered that the ability to learn is particularly dependent on physical education.
c. Accepting the Greeks, he was the first to devise special exercises for invalid children.
He has a school which is La Giocosa (“The Pleasant House”).
An English humanist from the University of Padua to the court of the Prince
of Mantua.
His original name Vittore dei Ramboldini.
La Giocosa was possibly Europe’s first boarding school for younger students.
He was born in Feltre, Belluno, Republic of Venice and died in Mantua.
He focused on the subject that is development of the body as well as the mind.
(1378 – February 2, 1446)
Roger Asham
What he advocated
b. Recognized the importance of Physical Education
c. Exercise as a means of resting the mind that it may be sharper at a later time.
a. Study of Latin and Greek authors as means of obtaining liberal education.
English humanist and professor at Cambridge wrote “The Schoolmaster”.
Alma mater: St John’s College, Cambridge.
He is famous for his prose style, his promotion of the vernacular, and his theories of education.
Toxophilus (“Lover of the Bow”), written in the form of a dialogue, was published in 1545 and was the first book on archery in English.
(c. 1515-1568)
The Scholemaster, written in simple, lucid English prose and published posthumously in 1570, is Ascham’s best-known book.
He became Princess Elizabeth’s tutor in Greek and Latin (1548–50)
Served as secretary to Sir Richard Morison (1550–52)
English ambassador to the Habsburg emperor Charles V.
HE\e tutor 3 girls which are Lady Jane Grey, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth.
Sir Thomas Eliot
an English humanist
His wife is an Magaret a Barrow
His famous work is “The Governor” a treatise on education, discussing intellectual and moral
education and recreation.
Education at St. Mary Hall, Oxford
(c. 1480-1551)
Original name is Thomas Eliot, Of Widford
His Dictionary, the first English dictionary of Classical Latin, was published in 1538.
His Castel of Helth was a popular regimen of health that, written in the vernacular and by a layman.
Agreed with all humanist that the mind and body
need recreation and that long hours of study should be broken by play and exercise.
Pius II
Quotation from him:
a. “As regards a boy’s physical training we must bear in mind that we aim at in planting habits which will prove
beneficial through life.
b. In respect to eating and drinking, the rule of moderation consists in rejecting which needlessly, taxes the digestion
and impair mental activity.
He became secretary to Cardinal Domenico Capranica and went with him to the Council of Basel.
A Pope of very marked humanist idea.
Head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States.
He was born at Corsignano in the Sienese
18 October 1405 – 14 August 1464)
Original name Enea Silvio Piccolomini.
He became secretary to the antipope Felix V, elected on Nov. 5, 1439
Hieronymus Mercurialis
renowned medical teacher and practitioner in 16th-century Italy.
Mercurialis on speech disorders
Mogilaloi—difficulty speaking
Balbuties—different, milder speech disorders
Ablatio—muteness, most often related to deafness.
A famous Italian physician and Greek and Latin scholar.
He wrote a treatise, “De Arte Gymnastica”
which is historical and descriptive.
(September 30, 1530 – November 8, 1606)
He recommended developing self-confidence and fostering personal accomplishment, a method he called trepidation.
He also studied ancient attitudes toward diet, exercise, and hygiene and the use of natural methods for the cure of disease.
He was a professor of medicine at Padua, Bologna, and Pisa, and wrote medical books.
Johannes Sturn
Organized and named the first German Gymnasium in Strasbourg.
Professor at University of Altdorf and founder of a short-lived scientific academy known as the Collegium Curiosum.
Educated at the school of the Brethren of the Common Life in Liège and at the Catholic University of Leuven (Louvain).
In 1538 he guided the consolidation of schools into one big Gymnasium.
(3 November 1635 – 26 December 1703)
German philosopher
Sturm lectured in Paris (1530–36) before being invited to Strassburg to become rector of a new Gymnasium there.
Original name is Johann Christoph Sturm.
Pier Paolo Vergerio
Quotation from his work:
a. “But where an active frame is conjoined to a vigorous intellect a true education will aim at the efficient training of both- the reason that may wisely control the body that may properly obey. So that we be involved in aims we may be found ready to define our right or to strike a blow for honor or power. How war involves physical endurance as well as military skill.”
b. “The boy was gradually immured to privations and grave exertion, to enable him to bear strain and hardship when he reaches manhood.’ Further the boy “should be exercise in activity and courage by feats of strength or danger of the field in endurance by bearing heat and cold, hunger and thirst for luxury enervates mind and body alike so exertion
fortified both...”
c. “ In childhood learning first, in youth morals, with physical exercises, varying in
degree for all.”
An Italian educator from the Padua and Florence.
He composed his famous treatise On the Manners of a Gentleman and Liberal Studies (“De Ingenious,” ).
"Bodily Exercises and Training in the Art of War," recreation".
He studied at Padua, Florence and Bologna.
Vergerio was the author of several works, including a treatise On Restoring Unity in the Church, a Life of Petrarch, a History of the Princes of Carrara.
(c. 1498 – October 4, 1565)